Genus: Protochelifer Beier, 1948 | Family: Cheliferidae Risso, 1827 | Order: Pseudoscorpiones de Geer, 1778

Protochelifer victorianus Beier, 1966

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Protochelifer victorianus

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:d53f60a1-6327-491e-ae08-c55c9e5d56f7

Taxonomic references

Protochelifer victorianus

Beier, 1966a: 301–302, fig. 15 original description
Harvey, 1981b: 245
Harvey, 1985d: 132
Harvey, 1991a: 524
Harvey, 1992c: n/a, figs 215–224
Cole, Elgar and Harvey, 1995: 223–226, fig. 1
Murienne, Harvey and Giribet, 2008: 175
Romero-Ortiz, Harvey, Benavides, Cuadrado-Rios and Sarmiento, 2025: n/a, figs 4, 5

Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: Australasia

Australia (Victoria)
Type locality: Olsens Road, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Olsens Road, mid-point -38.483333 146.316666
Type repository
  • Holotype Australian Museum (AM), Sydney, Australia male (AM KS.5863)
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:134F89CC-65F8-4FC8-9380-9E77F1ED43CC

References

Beier, M. (1966a). On the Pseudoscorpionidea of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 14: 275–303. -- Show included taxa

Cole, D.C., Elgar, M.A. & Harvey, M.S. (1995). Associations between Australian pseudoscorpions and ants. Psyche, Cambridge 101: 221–227. -- Show included taxa

Harvey, M.S. (1981b). A checklist of the Australian Pseudoscorpionida. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 5: 237–252. -- Show included taxa

Harvey, M.S. (1985d). Pseudoscorpionida. In: Walton, D.W. (ed.) Zoological catalogue of Australia Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra 3: 126–155. -- Show included taxa

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

Harvey, M.S. (1992c). The phylogeny and classification of the Pseudoscorpionida (Chelicerata: Arachnida). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 1373–1435. -- Show included taxa

Murienne, J., Harvey, M.S. & Giribet, G. (2008). First molecular phylogeny of the major clades of Pseudoscorpiones (Arthropoda: Chelicerata). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49: 170–184. -- Show included taxa

Romero-Ortiz, C., Harvey, M.S., Benavides, L.R., Sarmiento, C.E. & Sarmiento, C.E. (2025). Phylogeny and evolution of male genitalia in Withiidae (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones). Invertebrate Systematics 39(IS25029): 1–16. doi: 10.1071/IS25029 -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2026-02-10 Species updated Old value
2026-02-10 Species updated Old value
2025-11-11 New taxonomic reference entry Romero-Ortiz, Harvey, Benavides, Cuadrado-Rios and Sarmiento, 2025