Pseudoscorpions of the World

Last updated: 19 January 2009

Version 1.2, 2009
Text Box: Atemnidae Text Catalogue Bochicidae Text Catalogue Cheiridiidae Text Catalogue Cheliferidae Text Catalogue Chernetidae Text Catalogue Chthoniidae Text Catalogue Dracochelidae Text Catalogue Feaellidae Text Catalogue Garypidae Text Catalogue Garypinidae Text Catalogue Geogarypidae Text Catalogue Gymnobisiidae Text Catalogue Hyidae Text Catalogue Ideoroncidae Text Catalogue Larcidae Text Catalogue Lechytiidae Text Catalogue Menthidae Text Catalogue Neobisiidae Text Catalogue Olpiidae Text Catalogue Parahyidae Text Catalogue Pseudochiridiidae Text Catalogue Pseudogarypidae Text Catalogue Sternophoridae Text Catalogue Syarinidae Text Catalogue Tridenchthoniidae Text Catalogue Withiidae Text Catalogue Text Box: Home Text Box: What are pseudoscorpions? Text Box: Phylogeny Text Box: Classification & list of families Text Box: Literature Text Box: List of genera, alphabetical Text Box: Numbers of Recent taxa Text Box: Fossils Text Box: Full classification Text Box: Nomina dubia & nomina nuda Text Box: Species by country Text Box: Indohya sp. from Western Australia (Image: M. Harvey)

History

 

The family Hyidae were first recognized by Chamberlin (1930) who included the sole genus Hya with the type species from the Philippines. Beier (1932) transferred the group to the Ideoroncidae, and relegated to subfamily status. Chamberlin (1946) added the Leucohyinae to the family, but this group was transferred to the Bochicidae by Muchmore (1982, 1998). Two genera treated by Beier as members of the Hyidae, Parahya and Stenohya, were transferred to other neobisioid families by Harvey (1991, 1992).

 

Composition

 

The family was revised by Harvey (1993) who recognized three genera, Hya in Hyinae, and Indohya and Hyella in Indohyinae. Harvey and Volschenk (2007a) synonymised Hyella with Indohya, and disbanded the subfamilial system.

 

Distribution

 

Hyids are restricted to the Old World, with Hya found in south-east Asia and Sri Lanka, and Indohya in India, north-western Australia and Madagascar. They occur in leaf litter or in caves.

 

Important references

 

Harvey, M.S. (1993). The systematics of the Hyidae (Pseudoscorpionida: Neobisioidea). Invertebrate Taxonomy 7: 1-32.

Harvey, M.S. and Volschenk, E.S. (2007a). The systematics of the Gondwanan pseudoscorpion family Hyidae (Pseudoscorpiones: Neobisioidea): new data and a revised phylogenetic hypothesis. Invertebrate Systematics 21: 365-406.

 

 

 

Family Hyidae Chamberlin 1930