A new species of Lagynochthonius (Pseudoscorpiones： Chthoniidae) fromYunnan Province, China

摘要

Lagynochthonius microdentatus sp. nov. is described and figured from Yunnan Province. China.The pseudoscorpion genus Lagynochthonius belongs to tribe Tyrannochthoniini Chamberlin 1962, subfamily Chthoniinae Daday 1888, family Chthoniidae Daday 1888. At present this genus contains 43 species and is widely distributed in Asia, Australasia, Africaand South America (Harvey 2011). Pseudoscorpions of this genus generally have a bottle-shaped palpal palm, a greatly enlarged sclerotic apodeme of the movable finger, and the distal tooth of the fixed chelal finger displaced onto the antiaxial face.