Genus: Pseudotyrannochthonius Beier, 1930 | Family: Pseudotyrannochthoniidae Beier, 1932 | Order: Pseudoscorpiones de Geer, 1778

Pseudotyrannochthonius rucapillan Prado & Ferreira, 2025

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Pseudotyrannochthonius

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:e5993101-37b2-4d8d-964e-835d12f80e9f

Taxonomic references

Pseudotyrannochthonius rucapillan Prado & Ferreira:

Prado and Ferreira, 2025: 318–321, figs 1, 2 original description

Distribution
Distribution table
Chile
Type locality: Villa Rica Cave, Araucanía region, Cautín Province, Pucon, Chile.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Villa Rica Cave -39.396444 -71.545055
Type repository
  • Holotype Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile male
  • Paratype Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile 1 female, 1 tritonymph
References

Prado, G.C. & Ferreira, R.L. (2025). Elusive, rare, or simply underexplored? A new species of Pseudotyrannochthonius Beier, 1930 (Pseudoscorpiones: Pseudotyrannochthoniidae) from a Chilean lava tube. Arachnology 20: 317–322. -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2025-08-01 Taxonomic reference update Prado and Ferreira, 2025
2025-08-01 New taxonomic reference entry Prado and Ferreira, 2025
2025-08-01 New species inserted