Genus: Ditha Chamberlin, 1929 | Family: Chthoniidae Daday, 1889 | Order: Pseudoscorpiones de Geer, 1778

Ditha (Paraditha) shivanparaensis Jeong, Harms & Johnson, 2024

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Ditha (Paraditha)

Subgenus Paraditha

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:044f3a37-f6cf-4c06-88a4-0d51d8b60457

Taxonomic references

Ditha (Paraditha) shivanparaensis Jeong, Harms & Johnson:

Jeong, Harms and Johnson, 2024: 3‒7, figs 1‒4 original description

Distribution
Distribution table
India
Type locality: Idukki, Mathiket tan Shola National Park, Shivanpara, Kerala, India.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Idukki 9.968083 77.22875
Type repository
  • Holotype Arachnology Division of Sacred Heart College, Thevara, India (ADSH) female (ADSH PST0001)
  • Paratype Arachnology Division of Sacred Heart College, Thevara, India (ADSH) 2 females, 1 male (ADSH PST0002, ADSH PST0003, ADSH PST0004)
  • Paratype Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany 1 female (ZMH-A0013527)
References

Jeong, K.-H., Harms, D. & Johnson, J. (2024). A new species of Ditha (Pseudoscorpiones, Chthoniidae, Tridenchthoniinae) from the Western Ghats of India, with an identification key for the genus.. Zoosystematics and Evolution 100: 1–8. doi: doi.org/10.3897/zse.100.110020 -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2026-03-26 Taxonomic reference update
2026-03-26 New taxonomic reference entry Jeong, Harms and Johnson, 2024
2026-03-26 New species inserted