Tridenchthoniidae
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Tridenchthoniidae is a family of pseudoscorpion
s within the superfamily Chthonioidea
. The family comprises one fossil and 15 recent genera, containing 70 species:
Pseudoscorpion
A pseudoscorpion, , is an arachnid belonging to the order Pseudoscorpionida, also known as Pseudoscorpiones or Chelonethida....
s within the superfamily Chthonioidea
Chthonioidea
The Chthonioidea are a superfamily of pseudoscorpions. The superfamily contains two families:*Tridenchthoniidae — worldwide *Chthoniidae — worldwide...
. The family comprises one fossil and 15 recent genera, containing 70 species:
- Anaulacodithella angustimana Beier, 1955 — southern AfricaSouthern AfricaSouthern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. Within the region are numerous territories, including the Republic of South Africa ; nowadays, the simpler term South Africa is generally reserved for the country in English.-UN...
- Anaulacodithella australica Beier, 1969 — AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
- Anaulacodithella deserticola (Beier, 1947) — southern Africa
- Anaulacodithella mordax (Tullgren, 1907) — southern Africa
- Anaulacodithella novacaledonica Beier, 1966 — New CaledoniaNew CaledoniaNew Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...
- Anaulacodithella plurisetosa Beier, 1976 — Lord Howe IslandLord Howe IslandLord Howe Island is an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, directly east of mainland Port Macquarie, and about from Norfolk Island. The island is about 11 km long and between 2.8 km and 0.6 km wide with an area of...
- Anaulacodithella reticulata Beier, 1966 — New Caledonia
- Anisoditha curvidigitatus (Balzan, 1887) — ParaguayParaguayParaguay , officially the Republic of Paraguay , is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. Paraguay lies on both banks of the Paraguay River, which runs through the center of the...
- † Chelignathus kochi Menge in C. L. Koch & Berendt, 1854 — fossil (OligoceneOligoceneThe Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 34 million to 23 million years before the present . As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the period are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are slightly...
) - Compsaditha aburi J. C. Chamberlin & R. V. Chamberlin, 1945 — central AfricaCentral AfricaCentral Africa is a core region of the African continent which includes Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda....
- Compsaditha angustula Beier, 1972 — ZaireZaireThe Republic of Zaire was the name of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo between 27 October 1971 and 17 May 1997. The name of Zaire derives from the , itself an adaptation of the Kongo word nzere or nzadi, or "the river that swallows all rivers".-Self-proclaimed Father of the Nation:In...
- Compsaditha basilewskyi Beier, 1962 — TanzaniaTanzaniaThe United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
- Compsaditha camponota Sivaraman, 1980 — IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
- Compsaditha congica Beier, 1959 — Zaire
- Compsaditha elegantula Beier, 1972 — Zaire
- Compsaditha fiegrigi Beier, 1931 — BrazilBrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, ParaguayParaguayParaguay , officially the Republic of Paraguay , is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. Paraguay lies on both banks of the Paraguay River, which runs through the center of the... - Compsaditha gressitti Beier, 1957 — Caroline IslandsCaroline IslandsThe Caroline Islands are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Politically they are divided between the Federated States of Micronesia in the eastern part of the group, and Palau at the extreme western end...
- Compsaditha indica Murthy, 1960 — India
- Compsaditha parva Beier, 1951 — VietnamVietnamVietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
- Compsaditha pygmaea J. C. Chamberlin, 1929 — PhilippinesPhilippinesThe Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
- Compsaditha seychellensis Beier, 1974 — SeychellesSeychellesSeychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar....
- Cryptoditha elegans (Beier, 1931)
- Ditha elegans J. C. Chamberlin, 1929 — IndonesiaIndonesiaIndonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
- Ditha loricata Beier, 1965 — New GuineaNew GuineaNew Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...
- Ditha novaeguineae Beier, 1965 — New Guinea
- Ditha ogasawarensis Sato, 1981 — JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
- Ditha palauensis Beier, 1957 — PalauPalauPalau , officially the Republic of Palau , is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Philippines and south of Tokyo. In 1978, after three decades as being part of the United Nations trusteeship, Palau chose independence instead of becoming part of the Federated States of Micronesia, a...
- Ditha philippinensis J. C. Chamberlin, 1929 — Philippines
- Ditha proxima (Beier, 1951) — NepalNepalNepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
, Vietnam - Ditha laosana (Beier, 1951) — LaosLaosLaos Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south and Thailand to the west...
- Ditha latimana Beier, 1931 — Tanzania
- Ditha marcusensis (Morikawa, 1952) — Marcus Island
- Ditha pahangica (Beier, 1955) — Malaysia
- Ditha sinuata (Tullgren, 1901) — AfricaAfricaAfrica is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
- Ditha sumatraensis (J. C. Chamberlin, 1923)
- Ditha tonkinensis Beier, 1951 — Vietnam
- Dithella javana (Tullgren, 1912) — JavaJavaJava is an island of Indonesia. With a population of 135 million , it is the world's most populous island, and one of the most densely populated regions in the world. It is home to 60% of Indonesia's population. The Indonesian capital city, Jakarta, is in west Java...
- Haploditha chamberlinorum Caporiacco, 1951 — VenezuelaVenezuelaVenezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
- Heterolophus australicus Beier, 1969 — AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
- Heterolophus clathratus (Tullgren, 1907) — southern Africa
- Heterolophus guttiger Tomosvary, 1884 — ArgentinaArgentinaArgentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
, Brazil - Heterolophus nitens Tomosvary, 1884 — Brazil
- Neoditha irusanga Feio, 1945 — Brazil
- Pycnodithella abyssinica (Beier, 1944) — EthiopiaEthiopiaEthiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
- Pycnodithella harveyi Kennedy, 1989 — New South WalesNew South WalesNew South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
- Sororoditha hirsuta (Balzan, 1887) — Brazil
- Tridenchthonius addititius Hoff, 1950 — São Thomé, Ghana, "St. Thomas Island"
- Tridenchthonius africanus (Beier, 1931) — Tanzania
- Tridenchthonius beieri Mahnert, 1983 — KenyaKenyaKenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
- Tridenchthonius brasiliensis Mahnert, 1979 — Brazil
- Tridenchthonius buchwaldi (Tullgren, 1907) — EcuadorEcuadorEcuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
- Tridenchthonius cubanus (J. C. Chamberlin, 1929) — CubaCubaThe Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
, JamaicaJamaicaJamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic... - Tridenchthonius donaldi Turk, 1946 — TrinidadTrinidadTrinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in...
- Tridenchthonius gratus Hoff, 1963 — Jamaica
- Tridenchthonius juxtlahuanca J. C. Chamberlin & R. V. Chamberlin, 1945 — MexicoMexicoThe United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
- Tridenchthonius mexicanus J. C. Chamberlin & R. V. Chamberlin, 1945 — Mexico
- Tridenchthonius parvidentatus Balzan, 1887 — South AmericaSouth AmericaSouth America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
- Tridenchthonius parvulus Balzan, 1887 — ParaguayParaguayParaguay , officially the Republic of Paraguay , is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. Paraguay lies on both banks of the Paraguay River, which runs through the center of the...
- Tridenchthonius peruanus Beier, 1955 — PeruPeruPeru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
- Tridenchthonius serrulatus (Silvestri, 1918) — Ivory Coast, NigeriaNigeriaNigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...
- Tridenchthonius surinamus (Beier, 1931) — Surinam
- Tridenchthonius trinidadensis Hoff, 1946 — Trinidad
- Typhloditha anophthalma Beier, 1955 — Zaire
- Typhloditha minima Beier, 1959 — Congo
- Typhloditha termitophila Beier, 1964 — southern Africa
- Verrucaditha spinosa (Banks, 1893) — eastern USA
- Verrucadithella dilatimana (Redikorzev, 1924) — central Africa
- Verrucadithella francisi Feio, 1945 — Brazil
- Verrucadithella jeanneli Beier, 1935 — Kenya, Uganda
- Verrucadithella sulcatimana Beier, 1944 — Tanzania