A redescription of Paratemnoides plebejus (with) (Pseudoscorpiones; atemnidae)

Abstract

The pseudoscorpiones genus Paratemnoides Harvey2 belonging to the subfamily Atemninae Kishida, 1929 of the family Atemnidae Kishida, 1929. The genus is cosmopolitan in distribution having 31 nominal species Harvey,3 including five representatives from India, which all were originally described under Chelifer Geoffroy, 1762 and Paratemnus Beier,4 Paratemnoides indicus (Sivaraman, 1980), Paratemnoides laosanus Beier3 Paratemnoides mahnerti (Sivaraman, 1981), Paratemnoides pallidus (Balzan, 1892) and Paratemnoides plebejus Carl With,1 Beier.2 Paratemnoides is characterised by the trichobothrial pattern of fixed chelal finger: the tactile hair it of the fixed finger in or proximal of the finger and always far farther from the fingertip than the distance between isb, and ist and st of movable finger closer to sb than to t Beier.5