Genus: Megachernes Beier, 1932 | Family: Chernetidae Menge, 1855 | Order: Pseudoscorpiones de Geer, 1778

Megachernes afghanicus Beier, 1959

SPECIES |   SYNONYM

Original combination: Megachernes afghanicus

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:947f13bb-6e39-4814-a73c-c8abf4a2459a

Junior synonym of: Megachernes pavlovskyi Redikorzev, 1949

Taxonomic references

Megachernes afghanicus

Beier, 1959a: 274–275, fig. 17 original description
Beier, 1960a: 43
Beier, 1961e: 3
Lindberg, 1961: 31
Harvey, 1991a: 599
Beron, 2002: 38
Harvey, Ratnaweera, Udagama and Wijesinghe, 2012: 2529

Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: Palearctic

Afghanistan
Type locality: Grotte Boulan, near Milizai, Qalat-e Gilzay (as Qalat), Zabul, Afghanistan.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Bolan, 6 km WSW. of Milizai 31.883333 66.916666
Type repository
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References

Beier, M. (1959a). Zur Kenntnis der Pseudoscorpioniden-Fauna Afghanistans. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 87: 257–282. -- Show included taxa

Beier, M. (1960a). Pseudoscorpionidea. Contribution à l'étude de la faune d'Afghanistan. 27. Förhandlingar vid Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapets i Lund 30: 41–45. -- Show included taxa

Beier, M. (1961e). Pseudoscorpionidea II. Contribution à l'étude de la faune d'Afghanistan 56. Förhandlingar vid Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapets i Lund 31: 1–4. -- Show included taxa

Beron, P. (2002). On the high altitude pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpionida) in the Old World. Historia Naturalis Bulgarica 14: 29–44. -- Show included taxa

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

Harvey, M.S., Ratnaweera, P.B., Udagama, P.V. & Wijesinghe, M.R. (2012). A new species of the pseudoscorpion genus Megachernes (Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae) associated with a threatened Sri Lankan rainforest rodent, with a review of host associations of Megachernes. Journal of Natural History 46: 2519–2535. -- Show included taxa

Lindberg, K. (1961). Recherches biospéléologiques en Afghanistan. Acta Universitatis Lundensis, nova series 57: 1–39. -- Show included taxa

Nassirkhani, M. & Shoushtari, R.V. (2017).

Key to the species of Megachernes Beier (Pseudoscorpiones: Chernetidae), with notes on M. afghanicus and M. pavlovskyi
. Turkish Journal of Zoology 41: 568–575. -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2022-07-08 Species synonymy Nassirkhani and Shoushtari, 2017
2022-07-08 Species updated Old value