Genus: Chelifer Geoffroy, 1762 | Family: Cheliferidae Risso, 1827 | Order: Pseudoscorpiones de Geer, 1778

Chelifer bravaisii Gervais, in Dugès and Edwards, 1836

SPECIES |   SYNONYM

Original combination: Chelifer Bravaisii

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:f7c3c6b3-dcf8-4ce0-9e17-aff4a3a22001

Junior synonym of: Garypus beauvoisii Audouin, 1826

Taxonomic references

Chelifer bravaisii Gervais:

Dugès and Milne-Edwards, 1836: n/a, plate 20 bis fig. 3 original description

Chelifer bravaisii

Gervais, 1842b: xlvi (synonymised by Simon, 1885c: 49)
Gervais, 1844: 84
Hagen, 1870: 264
Pocock, 1906: 660
Daiber, 1913: n/a, fig. 3
Judson, 1997a: 11 (as synonym of Garypus beauvoisi (Audouin))

Obisium bravaisii (Gervais):

Lucas, 1849: 277

Garypus bravaisii (Gervais):

Simon, 1878a: 152 (as Garypus bravaisi)

Distribution
Distribution table
Type locality: Algeria.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Algeria (IMPRECISE) 38.733333 3.4
Type repository
    N/A
Zoobank LSID

5B284D17-0681-481A-9681-6FD73DC01289

References

Daiber, M. (1913). Arachnoidea sive Chelicerota. In: Lang, A. (ed.) Handbuch der Morphologie der Wirbellosen Tiere Gustav Fischer, Jena 4: 269–350. -- Show included taxa

Dugès, A. & Edwards, M. (1836). Les Arachnides. In: Cuvier, G. (ed.) Le règne animal distribue d'après son organisation Fortin, Masson, Paris 15–16: 1-106. [3rd edition] -- Show included taxa

Gervais, P. (1842b). [Untitled]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 11: xlv–xlviii. ZooBank: AE648BE0-4313-4625-9DF5-24132F0CFBB2 -- Show included taxa

Gervais, P. (1844). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Aptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris 3: 85-93. ZooBank: C21A7D07-BB78-4ECC-85CA-8B96DA53ED59 -- Show included taxa

Hagen, H. (1870). Synopsis pseudoscorpionidum synonymica. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 13: 263–272. -- 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

Lucas, H. (1849). Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés. Crustacés, Arachnides, Myriapodes et Hexapodes. In: Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842. Sciences physiques. Zoologie Imprimerie Nationale, Paris 2(1). ZooBank: 5875156F-0808-48A3-9D96-757FCB573F05 -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R.I. (1906). Arachnida. In: Anonymous (ed.) The history of the collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum British Museum (Natural History), London 2: 655–683. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1878a). Liste des espèces de la famille des Cheliferidae qui habitant l'Algérie et le Maroc. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (5) 8: 144–153. ZooBank: 32C16DF4-FD84-44AB-919C-AA526246A0CA -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1885c). Étude sur les Arachnides recueillis en Tunisie en 1883 et 1884 par Mm. A. Letourneux, M. Sédillot et Valery Mayet. In: Exploration Scientifique de la Tunisie Imprimerie Nationale, Paris: 1–55. ZooBank: 070FBF6B-7C5A-4B48-9694-1CBFAD9F0293 -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2026-08-18 Species updated Old value
2026-08-18 Taxonomic reference update Gervais, 1842
2026-08-18 Taxonomic reference update Dugès and Milne-Edwards, 1836
2023-12-03 Species updated Old value
2023-10-22 Taxonomic reference update Simon, 1878
2023-10-22 Taxonomic reference update
2023-10-22 Taxonomic reference update Gervais, 1842
2023-10-22 Taxonomic reference update Judson, 1997