Biology:Lechytia
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Lechytia is a genus of pseudoscorpions in the subfamily Lechytiinae within the family Chthoniidae.[1] It is the sole genus in its subfamily and contains 22 described species from many parts of the world.[2]
Species
- Lechytia anatolica Beier, 1965 — Turkey
- Lechytia arborea Muchmore, 1975 — Florida, Texas
- Lechytia asiatica Redikorzev, 1938 — Vietnam
- Lechytia cavicola Muchmore, 1973 — Mexico
- Lechytia chilensis Beier, 1964 — Chile
- Lechytia chthoniiformis (Balzan, 1887) — South America
- Lechytia delamarei Vitali-di Castro, 1984 — Guadeloupe
- Lechytia dentata Mahnert, 1978 — Republic of Congo
- † Lechytia finniae Hagen et al., 2025 — fossil: Kachin amber[3]
- Lechytia garambica Beier, 1972 — Democratic Republic of Congo
- Lechytia himalayana Beier, 1974 — Nepal
- Lechytia hoffi Muchmore, 1975 — western USA
- Lechytia indica Murthy & Ananthakrishnan, 1977 — India
- Lechytia kuscheli Beier, 1957 — Juan Fernández Islands
- Lechytia leleupi Beier, 1959 — Democratic Republic of Congo
- Lechytia madrasica Sivaraman, 1980 — India
- Lechytia martiniquensis Vitali-di Castro, 1984 — Martinique
- Lechytia maxima Beier, 1955 — Kenya, Tanzania
- Lechytia natalensis (Tullgren, 1907) — southern Africa
- Lechytia sakagamii Morikawa, 1952 — Caroline Islands
- Lechytia serrulata Beier, 1955 — Democratic Republic of Congo
- Lechytia sini Muchmore, 1975 — Florida, Texas
- † Lechytia tertiaria Schawaller, 1980 — fossil: Dominican amber
- Lechytia trinitatis Beier, 1970
Footnotes
- ↑ Benavides, Ligia R.; Cosgrove, Julia G.; Harvey, Mark S.; Giribet, Gonzalo (October 2019). "Phylogenomic interrogation resolves the backbone of the Pseudoscorpiones tree of life" (in en). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 139: 106509. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2019.05.023. PMID 31132522. Bibcode: 2019MolPE.13906509B. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1055790319302696.
- ↑ Biology Catalog
- ↑ Hagen, M.; Kotthoff, U.; Harms, D.; Loria, S. F. (2025). "New species of Lechytia Balzan, 1892 (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) from Burmese amber highlights 99 million years of morphological stasis". Cretaceous Research: 106120. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106120.
References
- Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog: Lechytiidae
Further reading
- Muchmore, William B. (1975): The Genus Lechytia in the United States (Pseudoscorpionida, Chthoniidae). The Southwestern Naturalist 20(1): 13-27. doi:10.2307/3670008
Wikidata ☰ Q675481 entry
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