Family Hyidae Chamberlin, 1930

Diagnosis. The family Hyidae currently includes those pseudoscorpions in which the femora of legs I and II have a basi-dorsal mound surmounted by a small seta and slit sensilla, the setae of the female anterior genital operculum are extremely small, and the pedipalpal femur has 2–3 stout setae on the retrolateral-basal margin (Harvey 1992, 1993; Harvey & Volschenk 2007).