Ellingsenius sculpturatus (Lewis, 1903)

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Chelifer sculpturatus

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:700d0a79-25b2-4fc6-966b-3ee88816fcdc


Genus type of Ellingsenius Chamberlin, 1932

Taxonomic references

Chelifer sculpturatus

Lewis, 1903: 497–498, figs 1–3 original description
With, 1905: 117–123, 136–137, plate 8 figs 2a–h
Ellingsen, 1912b: 84, 99–100
Godfrey, 1921: 118
Hirst, 1922: 36–37
Whyte, 1922: 37
Bellhouse Lemare, 1923: 232
Anonymous, 1929: 293–296
Hewitt and Godfrey, 1929: 327–331, figs 6a–e, plate 22 fig. 10
Chamberlin, 1931a: 68, fig. 30l
Garin, 1937: 33–47, figs 1–9

Ellingsenius sculpturatus (Lewis):

Chamberlin, 1932a: 36
Beier, 1932e: 275–276, figs 299–300
Beier, 1932g: n/a, fig. 267
Roewer, 1936: n/a, fig. 28b
Roewer, 1937: 316, fig. 201a
Beier, 1947b: 338
Beier, 1948b: 446, 459
Beier, 1954d: 139
Beier, 1958a: 186
Hoff, 1958: 36
Beier, 1964k: 90
Lawrence, 1967: 90
Muchmore, 1971a: 88
Newlands, 1978: 700
Muchmore, 1990a: 523
Harvey, 1991a: 500–501
Judson, 1997a: 39
Poinar, Ćurčić and Cokendolpher, 1998: 90
Allsopp, Kassimatis, Swart and Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2003: 63
Donovan and Paul, 2005: 83
Gonzalez, Mantilla and Mahnert, 2008: 471
Haddad, Prendini, Neethling and Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2023: 12

Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: Afrotropic; Nearctic

Congo - Kinshasa (Zaire)
Namibia
South Africa
US (California)
Zimbabwe
Type locality: KwaZulu-Natal (as Natal), South Africa.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 KwaZulu-Natal (IMPRECISE) -29 31
Type repository
  • Syntypes: 2 male, 4 female, 3 nymphs/exuvia (BMNH 1887.156); 1 female (BMNH 1899.4.7.1)
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:441D0CB0-3CD8-4C2A-A873-264A19339665

References

Allsopp, M.H., Kassimatis, E.J., Swart, D.J. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S. (2003). No evidence that pseudoscorpions are controlling varroa mites in South African honeybee colonies. South African Bee Journal 75: 61–66. -- Show included taxa

Anonymous (1929). Some notes on the pseudo-scorpion, Chelifer sculp: in relation to the honey bee. South African Journal of Natural History 6: 293–296. -- Show included taxa

Beier, M. (1932e). Pseudoscorpionidea II. Subord. C. Cheliferinea. Tierreich 58: i–xxi, 1–294. -- Show included taxa

Beier, M. (1932g). Pseudoscorpionidea - Afterskorpione. In: Kükenthal, W. and Krumbach, T. (ed.) Handbuch der Zoologie Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin und Leipzig 3 (2) (5): 117–192. -- Show included taxa

Beier, M. (1947b). Zur Kenntnis der Pseudoscorpionidenfauna des südlichen Afrika, insbesondere der südwest- und südafrikanischen Trockengebiete. Eos, Madrid 23: 285–339. -- Show included taxa

Beier, M. (1948b). Phoresie und Phagophilie bei Pseudoscorpionen. Österreichische Zoologische Zeitschrift 1: 441–497. -- Show included taxa

Beier, M. (1954d). Pseudoscorpioniden aus dem Belgischen Congo. Annales du Musée du Congo Belge, Sciences Zoologiques 1: 132–139. -- Show included taxa

Beier, M. (1958a). The Pseudoscorpionidea (false-scorpions) of Natal and Zululand. Annals of the Natal Museum 14: 155–187. -- Show included taxa

Beier, M. (1964k). Weiteres zur Kenntnis der Pseudoscorpioniden-Fauna des südlichen Afrika. Annals of the Natal Museum 16: 30–90. -- Show included taxa

Bellhouse Lemare, S. (1923). The false scorpion. Bee World 5: 232. -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, J.C. (1931a). The arachnid order Chelonethida. Stanford University Publications, Biological Sciences 7(1): 1–284. -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, J.C. (1932a). A synoptic revision of the generic classification of the chelonethid family Cheliferidae Simon (Arachnida) (continued). Canadian Entomologist 64: 17–21, 35–39. -- Show included taxa

Donovan, B.J. & Paul, F. (2005). Pseudoscorpions: the forgotten beneficials inside beehives and their potential for management for control of Varroa and other arthropod pests. Bee World 86: 82–86. -- Show included taxa

Ellingsen, E. (1912b). The pseudoscorpions of South Africa, based on the collections of the South African Museum, Cape Town. Annals of the South African Museum 10: 75–128. -- Show included taxa

Garin, H. (1937). Über den Bienen-Skorpion Chelifer sculpturatus. Archiv für Bienenkunde 18: 33–48. -- Show included taxa

Godfrey, R. (1921). False scorpions. South African Journal of Natural History 2: 118–120. -- Show included taxa

Gonzalez, V.H., Mantilla, B. & Mahnert, V. (2008). A new host record for Dasychernes inquilinus (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones, Chernetidae), with an overview of pseudoscorpion-bee relationships. Journal of Arachnology 35: 470–474. -- Show included taxa

Harvey, M.S. (1991a). Catalogue of the Pseudoscorpionida. Manchester University Press, Manchester. -- Show included taxa

Hewitt, J. & Godfrey, R. (1929). South African pseudoscorpions of the genus Chelifer Geoffroy. Annals of the Natal Museum 6: 305–336. -- Show included taxa

Hirst, S. (1922). Pseudoscorpions and bees. Bee World 4: 36–37. -- Show included taxa

Hoff, C.C. (1958). List of the pseudoscorpions of North America north of Mexico. American Museum Novitates 1875: 1–50. -- Show included taxa

Judson, M.L.I. (1997a). Catalogue of the pseudoscorpion types (Arachnida: Chelonethi) in the Natural History Museum, London. Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 11: 1–54. -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R.F. (1967). The pseudoscorpions (false-scorpions) of the Kruger National Park. Koedoe 10: 87–91. -- Show included taxa

Lewis, R.J. (1903). On an undescribed species of Chelifer. Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club (2) 8: 497–498. -- Show included taxa

Muchmore, W.B. (1971a). Phoresy by North and Central American pseudoscorpions. Proceedings of the Rochester Academy of Science 12: 79–97. -- Show included taxa

Muchmore, W.B. (1990a). Pseudoscorpionida. In: Dindal, D.L. (ed.) Soil biology guide John Wiley and Sons, New York: 503–527. -- Show included taxa

Newlands, G. (1978). Arachnida (except Acari). In: Werger, M.J.A. (ed.) Biogeography and ecology of southern Africa Junk, The Hague 31: 685–702. -- Show included taxa

Poinar, G.O., Jr, Ćurčić, B.P.M. & Cokendolpher, J.C. (1998). Arthropod phoresy involving pseudoscorpions in the past and present. Acta Arachnologica 47: 79–96. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C.F. (1936). Chelonethi oder Pseudoskorpione. In: Bronns, H.G. (ed.) Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft M.B.H., Leipzig 5(IV)(6)(1): 1–160. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C.F. (1937). Chelonethi oder Pseudoskorpione. In: Bronns, H.G. (ed.) Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft M.B.H., Leipzig 5(IV)(6)(1): 161–320. -- Show included taxa

Whyte, R. (1922). The false scorpion. Bee World 4: 37. -- Show included taxa

With, C.J. (1905). On Chelonethi, chiefly from the Australian region, in the collection of the British Museum, with observations on the "coxal sac" and on some cases of abnormal segmentation. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 15: 94–143, 328. -- Show included taxa

Haddad, C.R., Prendini, L., Neethling, J.-A. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S. (2023). The non-acarine Arachnida of the Amathole Mountains, South Africa. Bothalia 53: 1–33. -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-12-18 New taxonomic reference entry Haddad, Prendini, Neethling and Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2023