Pseudoscorpions of Israel: Annotated Checklist and Key, with New Records of Two Families (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones)
The location of Israel at the junction of three continents leads to a unique fauna of both Palearctic and Afrotropical zoogeographic origins. Following systematic revisions over the past sixty years and the discovery of new species, the only available key to the pseudoscorpions of Israel has become...
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| author | Sharon Warburg Shlomi Aharon Igor Armiach Steinpress Prashant P. Sharma Danilo Harms Efrat Gavish-Regev |
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| description | The location of Israel at the junction of three continents leads to a unique fauna of both Palearctic and Afrotropical zoogeographic origins. Following systematic revisions over the past sixty years and the discovery of new species, the only available key to the pseudoscorpions of Israel has become outdated. We provide here an up-to-date checklist of the pseudoscorpion species of Israel including distribution maps, and the first illustrated identification key of the Israeli fauna based on morphological characters. Prior to our study, this fauna comprised twelve families, 26 genera and 52 morphospecies, including several “subspecies”. We increase this number and list 61 pseudoscorpion morphospecies that belong to 28 genera and fourteen families. Most species are Palearctic and Mediterranean, and only a few are Afrotropical. Two families new to Israel are reported here for the first time: Syarinidae and Cheiridiidae. Both families are cosmopolitan and have representatives in the Mediterranean region. The putative new species are presented here at a genus level and will be described separately elsewhere. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-149637359db8491295f1110cdb4dda612023-12-22T14:45:32ZengMDPI AGTaxonomy2673-65002023-10-013446649510.3390/taxonomy3040027Pseudoscorpions of Israel: Annotated Checklist and Key, with New Records of Two Families (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones)Sharon Warburg0Shlomi Aharon1Igor Armiach Steinpress2Prashant P. Sharma3Danilo Harms4Efrat Gavish-Regev5The National Natural History Collections, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 9190401, IsraelThe National Natural History Collections, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 9190401, IsraelThe National Natural History Collections, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 9190401, IsraelDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of Madison-Wisconsin, 441 Birge Hall, 430 Lincoln Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USACentre for Taxonomy and Morphology, Museum of Nature Hamburg–Zoology, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB Hamburg), Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, D-20146 Hamburg, GermanyThe National Natural History Collections, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 9190401, IsraelThe location of Israel at the junction of three continents leads to a unique fauna of both Palearctic and Afrotropical zoogeographic origins. Following systematic revisions over the past sixty years and the discovery of new species, the only available key to the pseudoscorpions of Israel has become outdated. We provide here an up-to-date checklist of the pseudoscorpion species of Israel including distribution maps, and the first illustrated identification key of the Israeli fauna based on morphological characters. Prior to our study, this fauna comprised twelve families, 26 genera and 52 morphospecies, including several “subspecies”. We increase this number and list 61 pseudoscorpion morphospecies that belong to 28 genera and fourteen families. Most species are Palearctic and Mediterranean, and only a few are Afrotropical. Two families new to Israel are reported here for the first time: Syarinidae and Cheiridiidae. Both families are cosmopolitan and have representatives in the Mediterranean region. The putative new species are presented here at a genus level and will be described separately elsewhere.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-6500/3/4/27Cheiridiidaefalse scorpionsLevantspecies listSyarinidaetaxonomy |
| spellingShingle | Sharon Warburg Shlomi Aharon Igor Armiach Steinpress Prashant P. Sharma Danilo Harms Efrat Gavish-Regev Pseudoscorpions of Israel: Annotated Checklist and Key, with New Records of Two Families (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) Taxonomy Cheiridiidae false scorpions Levant species list Syarinidae taxonomy |
| title | Pseudoscorpions of Israel: Annotated Checklist and Key, with New Records of Two Families (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) |
| title_full | Pseudoscorpions of Israel: Annotated Checklist and Key, with New Records of Two Families (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) |
| title_fullStr | Pseudoscorpions of Israel: Annotated Checklist and Key, with New Records of Two Families (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pseudoscorpions of Israel: Annotated Checklist and Key, with New Records of Two Families (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) |
| title_short | Pseudoscorpions of Israel: Annotated Checklist and Key, with New Records of Two Families (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) |
| title_sort | pseudoscorpions of israel annotated checklist and key with new records of two families arachnida pseudoscorpiones |
| topic | Cheiridiidae false scorpions Levant species list Syarinidae taxonomy |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2673-6500/3/4/27 |
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