Cave-dwelling pseudoscorpions (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones) from Brazil

Abstract

Cave-dwelling pseudoscorpions (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones) from Brazil. - Pseudoscorpions collected in about 100 caves have been studied and 25 species of seven families identified. Two new genera - Spelaeobochica (Bochicidae) (type species allodentatus sp. n.) and Spelaeochernes (Chernetidae) (type species dentatus sp. n., with 7 other new species) - are described, together with 10 additional new species in the genera Pseudochthonius (Chthoniidae), Ideoroncus (Ideoroncidae), Progarypus (Olpiidae), Cheiridium (Cheiridiidae) and Zaona (Chernetidae: previously known from its type species from Florida only). Geogarypus itapemirinensis Feio is redescribed and transferred to the genus Cheiridium.