Chthonius rhodochelatus Hadži, 1933

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 : 8

Chthonius rhodochelatus Hadži, 1933 ( Figs. 2A , 3B ) ▲

New data: 25: maple forest, under the stone, individual sampling, 13.viii. 2019, 2 ñ, leg. Christophoryová J.

European distribution: Albania (present paper), Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Switzerland ( Harvey 2013b).

Notes: The distribution of C. rhodochelatus is restricted to the Mediterranean area and is recorded for the first time in Albania. Chthonius rhodochelatus is usually found in soil and leaf litter and a single specimen was found accidentally in a fallen bird’s nest ( Gardini 2004; Turienzo et al. 2010). The present discovery of the species under a stone corresponds to its known habitat preferences.

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Fig. 2. Distribution of the Chthoniidae and Neobisiidae taxa in Albania. A, Chthonius gjirokastri (red colour), Chthonius jonicus (orange colour), Chthonius rhodochelatus (green colour), Chthonius tenuis (blue colour), Globochthonius argirocastronis (yellow colour). B, Ephippiochthonius rogoi (red colour), Ephippiochthonius serbicus (green colour), Ephippiochthonius tuberculatus (yellow colour). C, Neobisium albanicum (purple colour), Neobisium doderoi (orange colour), Neobisium georgecastriotae (yellow colour), Neobisium latellai (red colour), Neobisium sylvaticum (blue colour), Neobisium valsuanii (green colour), Neobisium cf. vjetrenicae (brown colour), Neobisium sp. 1 (grey colour). D, Neobisium cephalonicum (red colour), Neobisium fuscimanum (blue colour), Neobisium hellenum (grey colour), Neobisium sublaeve (orange colour), Neobisium sp. 2 (green colour), Roncus lonai (purple colour), Roncus lubricus (brown colour), Roncus spp. (yellow colour). Circles indicate the published data, stars indicate the new data. For the locality codes, see table 1.

Fig. 3. First pseudoscorpion records for Albania from the families Chthoniidae and Garypinidae. A, Chthonius jonicus (female). B, Chthonius rhodochelatus (female). C, Chthonius tenuis (male). D, Ephippiochthonius serbicus (female). E, Ephippiochthonius tuberculatus (female). F, Amblyolpium dollfusi (male). Scale bars = 1 mm.