Genus: Motuchernes Harvey, Portflitt-Toro, Wynne, Romero-Ortiz & Cotoras, 2025 | Family: Chernetidae Menge, 1855 | Order: Pseudoscorpiones de Geer, 1778

Motuchernes spatiodigitus Harvey, Portflitt-Toro, Wynne, Romero-Ortiz & Cotoras, 2025

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Motuchernes

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:d064bc7f-c18c-4410-887d-0f7c1901cceb

Taxonomic references

Motuchernes spatiodigitus Harvey, Portflitt-Toro, Wynne, Romero-Ortiz & Cotoras:

Harvey, Portflitt-Toro, Wynne, Romero-Ortiz and Cotoras, 2025: 9‒12, figs 6A–F, 7A, B, 8A–F, 9A–F original description

Distribution
Distribution table
Chile
Type locality: Motu Motiro Hiva (Salas y Gómez Island), Valparaíso Province, Chile.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Motu Motiro Hiva -26.4721 -105.3625
Type repository
  • Holotype Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (MNHN), Santiago, Chile male
  • Paratype Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (MNHN), Santiago, Chile 3 males, 1 females, 1 tritonymph
  • Paratype Colección de Flora y Fauna Profesor Patricio Sánchez Reyes, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile (SSUC) 2 males (SSUC 8085, 8086), 1 female (SSUC 8087)
  • Paratype SaladeColecciones Biológicas, Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo, Chile (SCBUCN) 1 female (SCBUCN-5559); 2 males, 1 tritonymph, 1 deutonymph (SCBUCN-5560)
  • Paratype Western Australian Museum (WAM), Perth, Australia 1 male (WAM T163734), 1 female (WAM T163735), 1 male (WAMT163736)
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8FEFA84D-F7BB-4885-A8EA-ACE2EFB31A46

References

Harvey, M.S., Portflitt-Toro, M., Wynne, J.J., Romero-Ortiz, C. & Cotoras, D.D. (2025). Pseudoscorpions from Motu Motiro Hiva, a remote Polynesian island, with the description of a new genus of Chernetidae (Pseudoscorpiones)
. Diversity 17(852): 1–18. -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2026-01-15 New taxonomic reference entry Harvey, Portflitt-Toro, Wynne, Romero-Ortiz and Cotoras, 2025
2026-01-15 Species updated Old value
2026-01-15 Species updated Old value
2026-01-15 New species inserted