Apocheiridium ferum (Simon, 1879)

Christophoryová, Jana, Rusinko, Adam, Purkart, Adrián & Vičanová, Lucia, 2025, Urban biodiversity of pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) in the conditions of Central Europe, Zootaxa 5590 (1), pp. 1-45 : 22

Apocheiridium ferum (Simon, 1879)

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New data: 127: sifting of leaf litter and dead wood, 1.5.2020, 9 T, 2 D, leg. J.C .

European distribution: Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland ( Stol 2006; ChristophoryovÁ & KrajčovičovÁ 2021; WPC 2024).

Notes: The occurrence of the species A. ferum was recently documented for the first time on the territory of Slovakia, namely under the bark of the Platanus tree in the castle park in Malacky ( ChristophoryovÁ & KrajčovičovÁ 2021). The Petržalka find is thus the second known sampling site in Slovakia, but only nymphal stages have been collected in a new type of habitat, dead wood.

Figures

FIGURE 6. Pseudoscorpions from the families Neobisiidae, Cheiridiidae, and Cheliferidae. A. Neobisium carpaticum (female, loc. 184). B. Neobisium erythrodactylum (male, loc. 6). C. Neobisium sylvaticum (male, loc. 25). D. Apocheiridium ferum (tritonymph, loc. 127). E. Chelifer cancroides (male, loc. 11). F. Dactylochelifer degeerii (male, loc. 127). Scale bars: 0.5 mm.

FIGURE 7. Distribution of the species of Neobisiidae, Cheiridiidae, and Cheliferidae in Bratislava city. A. Neobisium sylvaticum. B. Apocheiridium ferum. C. Chelifer cancroides. D. Dactylochelifer degeerii. For the locality codes, see Table 1.