New Asian pseudoscorpions improve the phylogenetic resolution of Garypinoidea (Pseudoscorpiones)

Zhizhong Gao; Feng Zhang; Mark S. Harvey

doi:10.1071/IS24098

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New Asian pseudoscorpions improve the phylogenetic resolution of Garypinoidea (Pseudoscorpiones)

Zhizhong Gao ^A ^B , Feng Zhang ^B ^* and Mark S. Harvey

^C ^D ^*

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^A Department of Biology, Xinzhou Normal University, Xinzhou, Shanxi, 034000, PR China.

^B The Key Laboratory of Invertebrate Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei, 071002, PR China.

^C Collections & Research, Western Australian Museum, 49 Kew Street, Welshpool, WA 6106, Australia.

^D School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.

^* Correspondence to: dudu06042001@163.com, mark.harvey@museum.wa.gov.au

Handling Editor: Gonzalo Giribet

Invertebrate Systematics 39, IS24098 https://doi.org/10.1071/IS24098

Submitted: 24 November 2024 Accepted: 3 January 2025 Published: 19 February 2025

© 2025 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC)

Abstract

The recent subdivision of the pseudoscorpion family Garypinidae into three subfamilies, Garypininae, Amblyolpiinae and Protogarypininae, used a combination of molecular and morphological criteria. Newly obtained sequence data from several new garypinoid pseudoscorpions has helped clarify the relationships between various clades. Most importantly, we were able to include the type species of the family, Garypinus dimidiatus (L. Koch, 1873), and two additional species of Amblyolpium Simon, 1898, including A. shenzhou sp. nov. from southern China, which provided a better resolved phylogeny with Amblyolpium as sister to all other Garypinoidea. We raise the subfamily Amblyolpiinae to full family level, Amblyolpiidae stat. nov. In addition, we describe a new genus and species from the Himalayan Plateau, Absensus zhangi sp. nov., which has a morphological feature that allows placement in Amblyolpiidae.

ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4BDE596B-6EFE-4AB8-932E-1D4379849677

Keywords: classification, identification key, molecular phylogeny, morphology, new genus, new species, new status, taxonomy.

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