Chelifer Geoffroy, 1762

Genus

Distribution Count
8
Afghanistan 2
Albania 2
Argentina 4
Austria 2
Azerbaijan 2
Bosnia and Herzegovina 2
Belgium 2
Bulgaria 2
Brazil 2
Canada 2
Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire) 2
Switzerland 2
Chile 4
China 1
Cuba 2
Czech Republic 2
Germany 4
Denmark 2
Algeria 2
Estonia 2
Egypt 2
Spain 2
Ethiopia 2
Finland 2
France 4
United Kingdom 2
Georgia 2
Ghana 2
Equatorial Guinea 1
Greece 2
Croatia 2
Hungary 2
Ireland 2
Israel 2
India 3
Iceland 2
Italy 2
Japan 2
Kenya 2
Kyrgyzstan 2
Kazakhstan 2
Luxembourg 2
Latvia 2
Madagascar 2
Macedonia 2
Mongolia 2
Northern Mariana Islands 1
Malawi 2
Mexico 2
Netherlands 2
Norway 2
New Zealand 2
Pakistan 1
Poland 2
Romania 2
Serbia 2
Russia 2
Sweden 2
Slovakia 2
Turkmenistan 2
Turkey 2
Tanzania 3
United States 2
Uzbekistan 2
Vietnam 2
South Africa 2

Pseudoscorpiones de Geer 1778

Order

Iocheirata Harvey 1992

Suborder

Cheliferoidea Risso 1826

Superfamily

Chelifer cancroides from Europe (Image: M. Harvey)

Cheliferidae Risso, 1827

Family

Cheliferinae Risso 1827

Subfamily

Cheliferini Risso 1827

Tribe

Type species

of Chelifer: Acarus cancroides Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation of Latreille, 1802: 48.
of Obisium: Acarus cancroides Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation of Westwood, 1836: 10.

References

Chelifer Geoffroy, 1762: 617-618; de Geer, 1783a: 27; Fourcroy, 1785: 526; Latreille, 1796: 186; Geoffroy, 1799: 617-618; Lamarck, 1801: 177; Latreille, 1802: 48; Latreille, 1804: 138-141; Latreille, 1806: 132; Latreille, 1810: 118; Latreille, 1817: 108-109; Lamarck, 1818: 79-80; Duméril, 1823: 237; Latreille, 1825a: 131; Risso, 1826: 157; Théis, 1832: 69; Latreille, 1834: 316; Latreille, 1837: 316; C.L. Koch, 1839: 3-4; Gervais, 1849: 11; C.L. Koch, 1850: 3-4; Menge, 1855: 29-30; McIntire, 1868: 8; Stecker, 1874b: 235; Stecker, 1875d: 88; Simon, 1879a: 20; Tömösváry, 1882b: 195; Canestrini, 1883: no. 1; Hansen, 1884: 536-537; Balzan, 1887a: no pagination; Balzan, 1890: 411-412; Banks, 1891: 162; Balzan, 1892: 510; O.P.-Cambridge, 1892: 218-219; Becker, 1896: 326-327; Tullgren, 1899a: 165-166; Planet, 1905: 281-283; Tullgren, 1906a: 201; With, 1906: 117-130; Kew, 1911a: 39-40; Lessert, 1911: 9; Chamberlin, 1923c: 372; Pratt, 1927: 409; Schenkel, 1928: 56-57; Väänänen, 1928a: 18; Chamberlin, 1932a: 19; Beier, 1932e: 235-236; Chamberlin, 1935b: 481; G.O. Evans and Browning, 1954: 17; Hoff, 1956d: 3; Morikawa, 1960: 150-151; Meinertz, 1962: 101-102; Beier, 1963b: 286-287; Legg and Jones, 1988: 135; International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1989: 143; Harvey, 1991a: 487.

Obisium Illiger, 1798: 501 (synonymised by Chamberlin, 1930: 12).

Chelifer (Chelifer) Geoffroy: Simon, 1878a: 146; Balzan, 1892: 528; Kew, 1911a: 47; Lessert, 1911: 18; Nonidez, 1917: 20.

Species