An anomaly of chaetotaxy of pedipalpal chela in Neobisium carcinoides (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones)
- Observations of anomalies in the trichobothrial pattern in pseudo scorpions are rare. Some aberrations in Neobisiidae have been described by CURCle (1992): irregular distribution of some trichobothria on both pedipalpal chelae although normal setal count is maintained; reduction in the number of trichobothria due to reduced size or some other anomaly of one or both pedipalpal chelae; and the occurrence of a supernumerary trichobothrium at a normal length of both pedipalpal chelae. One similar anomaly of chaetotaxy in Neobisium carcinoides (HERMANN, 1804) has been observed within our study of the pseudo-scorpion fauna in the Czech republic. The specimen was collected on the "Mrtvy luh" peat bog in the Sumava mountains (Bohemia or.), 740 m altitude, in October 1993 (leg. 1. BUCHAR).
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