Genus: Chthonius C.L. Koch, 1843 | Family: Chthoniidae Daday, 1889 | Order: Pseudoscorpiones de Geer, 1778

† Chthonius marusiki Turbanov, Kolesnikov, Vorontsov, Vasilenko and Perkovsky, 2024

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Chthonius

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:7961b846-0785-436d-9609-45abdda3f286

Taxonomic references

Chthonius marusiki Turbanov, Kolesnikov, Vorontsov, Vasilenko and Perkovsky:

Turbanov, Kolesnikov, Vorontsov, Vasilenko and Perkovsky, 2024: 2558–2560, figs 1–4 original description

Distribution
Distribution table
Ukraine (Rovno Amber)
Type locality: Klesiv (as Klesov), Rivne Oblast, Ukraine, Rovno amber (late Eocene).

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Klesiv 51.316667 26.9
Type repository
  • Holotype Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev male (SIZK UA-29085)
References

Turbanov, I.S., Kolesnikov, V.B., Vorontsov, D.D., Vasilenko, D.V. & Perkovsky, E.E. (2024). Chthonius marusiki sp. nov. – the first pseudoscorpion of the family Chthoniidae Daday, 1889 (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones) from the late Eocene Rovno amber. Historical Biology 36: 2557–2564. -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2025-06-21 New taxonomic reference entry Turbanov, Kolesnikov, Vorontsov, Vasilenko and Perkovsky, 2024
2025-06-21 New species inserted