Neobisium (Neobisium) carpaticum Beier, 1935

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 : 20

Neobisium (Neobisium) carpaticum Beier, 1935 ( Figs 5C , 6A )

Published data: 4: sifting of leaf litter and soil, 30.4.1999, 1 P; 17.5.1999, 1 T; 24.9.1999, 1 ♂, 1 D; 31.8.2000, 1 P; leg. M.H., Z.K., I.O. ( Christophoryová 2013); 5: sifting of leaf litter and soil, 11.10.2005, 2 ♂♂, 4 D; 13.12.2005, 1 T, 2 D; 2.10.2006, 2 ♀♀; 9.12.2006, 1 D; leg. M.H. ( ChristophoryovÁ 2013); 14: sifting of leaf litter and soil, 14.6.2000, 1 ♂; 20.9.2000, 1 ♀; 7.11.2000, 1 ♀; leg. M.H., Z.K., I.O. ( ChristophoryovÁ 2013).

New data: 8: sifting of leaf litter, 20.5.2022, 1 ♂, leg. M.H.; 184: extraction of leaf litter, 8.7.2021, 3 T; 4.8.2021, 2 ♀♀, 1 ♂; leg. A.P.; 185: extraction of leaf litter and fallen tree bark, 4.8.2021, 1 ♀, leg. A.P.

European distribution: Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine ( Novák et al. 2019, WPC 2024).

Notes: Neobisium carpaticum is known from leaf litter and soil of oak-hornbeam forests in the Malé Karpaty Mts. ( ChristophoryovÁ 2013). The new sampling sites in Bratislava are located in VajnorskÁ hora, and the species was found in leaf litter and fallen bark.

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FIGURE 5. Distribution of the species of Chthoniidae and Neobisiidae in Bratislava city. A. Ephippiochthonius tetrachelatus. B. Neobisium carcinoides. C. Neobisium carpaticum. D. Neobisium erythrodactylum. For the locality codes, see Table 1.

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.