Cheiridiidae Hansen, 1894

Červená, Martina, Gardini, Giulio, Jablonski, Daniel & Christophoryová, Jana, 2021, Fig. 17. Periclimenaeus djiboutensis Bruce, 1970, ovigerous female specimen pocl 3.7 in Two New Species and a Further Country Record of the Caridean Shrimp Genus Borradaile, 1915 from Korea (Decapoda: Palaemonidae)., Zoological Studies 60 (17), pp. 1-25 : 14

Family Cheiridiidae Hansen, 1894 Apocheiridium ferum (Simon, 1879) ( Figs. 4A , 5B ) ▲

New data: 60: plane trees near brook, under Platanus orientalis barks, individual sampling, 15.x.2019, 29 ñ, 18 ò, 2 T, leg. Červená M., Selnekovič D.

European distribution: Albania (present paper), Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland ( Harvey 2013b; Christophoryová and Červená 2020).

Notes: Apocheiridium ferum , widely distributed in Europe, is recorded in Albania for the first time. Albania is the third-known country in the Balkans to show occurrence. During the field trip in Albania, specimens of A. ferum were observed together with a few specimens of Beierochelifer peloponnesiacus under the bark of the same trees. It is a typical bark-dwelling species, which can be found in the autumn and winter months in greater numbers under the dry tree bark (e.g., Beier 1963; Weygoldt 1969; Drogla and Lippold 2004; Machač et al. 2018; Novák et al. 2019; Christophoryová and Červená 2020).

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Fig. 4. Distribution of the Olpiidae, Cheiridiidae, Atemnidae, Garypinidae, Geogarypidae, Cheliferidae, Chernetidae and Withiidae taxa in Albania.A, Amblyolpium dollfusi (purple colour), Apocheiridium ferum (grey colour), Atemnus syriacus (red colour), Calocheiridius libanoticus (blue colour), Geogarypus italicus (green colour), Geogarypus minor (orange colour), Withius piger (yellow colour). B, Beierochelifer peloponnesiacus (blue colour), Chelifer cancroides (red colour), Dactylochelifer latreillii (yellow colour), Hysterochelifer meridianus (green colour). C, Hysterochelifer cyprius (green colour), Rhacochelifer maculatus (yellow colour), Rhacochelifer peculiaris (red colour). D, Dendrochernes cyrneus (yellow colour), Dinocheirus panzeri (orange colour), Lamprochernes chyzeri (green colour), Lamprochernes nodosus (grey colour), Lasiochernes graecus (purple colour), Pselaphochernes lacertosus (red colour), Pselaphochernes scorpioides (blue colour). Circles indicate the published data, stars indicate the new data. For the locality codes, see table 1.

Fig. 5. First pseudoscorpion records for Albania from the families Geogarypidae, Cheiridiidae, Atemnidae and Cheliferidae. A, Geogarypus italicus (female). B, Apocheiridium ferum (female). C, Atemnus syriacus (male). D, Beierochelifer peloponnesiacus (female). E, Hysterochelifer cyprius (female). F, Hysterochelifer meridianus (male). Scale bars = 1 mm.