Cheliferidae Risso, 1827

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 : 17

Family Cheliferidae Risso, 1827 Beierochelifer peloponnesiacus ( Beier, 1929) ( Figs. 4B , 5D ) ▲

New data: 60: plane trees near brook, under Platanus orientalis barks, individual sampling, 15.x.2019, 1 ñ, 4 T, 3 D, leg. Červená M., Selnekovič D.

European distribution: Albania (present paper), Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland ( Blick et al. 2004; Harvey 2013b; Krajčovičová and Christophoryová 2017; Hernández-Corral et al. 2018).

Notes: The species is new to the Albanian pseudoscorpion fauna; Albania represents the third-known country in the Balkans with its distribution. During the study, it was found together with Apocheiridium ferum under the bark of plane trees. In Europe, the species is found commonly under tree bark (e.g., Beier 1963; Petrov 2004; Krajčovičová and Christophoryová 2017), and, more rarely, in leaf litter and tree hollows (e.g., Krajčovičová and Christophoryová 2017; Hernández-Corral et al. 2018).

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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.