Taxa included

Leidy, [J.] (1877). Remarks on the Seventeen-year Locust, the Hessian Fly, and a Chelifer. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1877: 260–261.

Taxon
Chelifer cancroides (Linnaeus, 1758) (Pseudoscorpiones: Cheliferidae) 260, (misidentification; see Chernes sanborni Hagen), Chelifer cancroides (Linnaeus)
Chernes sanborni Hagen, 1868 (Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae) 260, (misidentification), Chelifer cancroides (Linnaeus)
Chelifer alius Leidy, 1877 (Pseudoscorpiones: Cheliferidae) 261, (synonymised by Banks, 1893: 64), Chelifer alius