Ephippiochthonius tuberculatus ( Hadži, 1937 )

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 : 8

Ephippiochthonius tuberculatus ( Hadži, 1937) ( Figs. 2B , 3E ) ▲

New data: 13: forest, soil, heat extracted in Tullgren funnels, 22.ix.2016, 1 T, leg. Fenďa P.; 29: roadside, compost heap, sifting, 29.iv.2017, 1 ñ, leg. Christophoryová J.; 55: between rocks, beech leaf litter, sifting, 28.ix.2016, 2 T, leg. Christophoryová J.; 65: beech forest, leaf litter, sifting, 29.ix.2016, 1 T, leg. Christophoryová J.; 66: beech forest, leaf litter, sifting, 29.ix.2016, 1 ñ, leg. Christophoryová J.; 74: xerothermic grassland, soil, heat extracted in Tullgren funnels, 23.ix.2016, 1 ñ, leg. Fenďa P.

European distribution: Albania (present paper), Germany, Greece, Hungary, North Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia ( Harvey 2013b).

Notes: Ephippiochthonius tuberculatus is newly recorded for Albanian pseudoscorpion fauna. This species lives in the soil and leaf litter (e.g., Beier 1963; Mahnert 1978), which corresponds to the present findings. One female from Albania was collected in a compost heap.

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Fig. 2. Distribution of the Chthoniidae and Neobisiidae taxa in Albania. A, Chthonius gjirokastri (red colour), Chthonius jonicus (orange colour), Chthonius rhodochelatus (green colour), Chthonius tenuis (blue colour), Globochthonius argirocastronis (yellow colour). B, Ephippiochthonius rogoi (red colour), Ephippiochthonius serbicus (green colour), Ephippiochthonius tuberculatus (yellow colour). C, Neobisium albanicum (purple colour), Neobisium doderoi (orange colour), Neobisium georgecastriotae (yellow colour), Neobisium latellai (red colour), Neobisium sylvaticum (blue colour), Neobisium valsuanii (green colour), Neobisium cf. vjetrenicae (brown colour), Neobisium sp. 1 (grey colour). D, Neobisium cephalonicum (red colour), Neobisium fuscimanum (blue colour), Neobisium hellenum (grey colour), Neobisium sublaeve (orange colour), Neobisium sp. 2 (green colour), Roncus lonai (purple colour), Roncus lubricus (brown colour), Roncus spp. (yellow colour). Circles indicate the published data, stars indicate the new data. For the locality codes, see table 1.

Fig. 3. First pseudoscorpion records for Albania from the families Chthoniidae and Garypinidae. A, Chthonius jonicus (female). B, Chthonius rhodochelatus (female). C, Chthonius tenuis (male). D, Ephippiochthonius serbicus (female). E, Ephippiochthonius tuberculatus (female). F, Amblyolpium dollfusi (male). Scale bars = 1 mm.