Genus: Palaeochiridium Turbanov, Kolesnikov, Vorontsov, Shadrin, Vasilenko and Perkovsky, 2025 | Family: Pseudochiridiidae Chamberlin, 1923 | Order: Pseudoscorpiones de Geer, 1778

† Palaeochiridium insolitum Turbanov, Kolesnikov, Vorontsov, Shadrin, Vasilenko and Perkovsky, 2025

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Palaeochiridium

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:be2b1319-76e4-410c-ac74-2505da6f0308

Taxonomic references

Palaeochiridium insolitum Turbanov, Kolesnikov, Vorontsov, Shadrin, Vasilenko and Perkovsky:

Turbanov, Kolesnikov, Vorontsov, Shadrin, Vasilenko and Perkovsky, 2025: 538–539, figs 1–8 original description

Distribution
Distribution table
Myanmar Myanmar (Cretaceous amber)
Type locality: Hukawng Valley, Kachin, Myanmar (amber fossil, Lower Cretaceous: Albian).

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Hukawng Valley 26.33333 96.6
Type repository
  • Holotype Borissiak Paleontological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia (PIN) male (PIN 5608/335)
  • Paratype Borissiak Paleontological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia (PIN) 1 male (PIN 5608/336a)
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:02B12E00-BD39-47E4-ADA2-329313602CD0

References

Turbanov, I., Kolesnikov, V., Vorontsov, D., Shadrin, D., Vasilenko, D. & Perkovsky, E. (2025). Palaeochiridiinae subfam. nov. (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones: Pseudochiridiidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, with a description of new genus and species. Zootaxa 5686: 536–554. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5686.4.5 -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2025-09-10 Species updated Old value
2025-09-10 Species updated Old value
2025-09-10 New taxonomic reference entry Turbanov, Kolesnikov, Vorontsov, Shadrin, Vasilenko and Perkovsky, 2025
2025-09-10 New species inserted