Withiidae Chamberlin, 1931

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 : 21

Family Withiidae Chamberlin, 1931 Withius piger (Simon, 1878)

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New data: 1: archaeological park, compost heap, sifting, 26.ix.2015, 1 ò, leg. Gruľa D.; 18: natural parking area, compost heap, sifting, 8.viii.2019, 5 ñ, leg. Christophoryová J.; 41: garden at roadside, cow-dung, sifting, 26.iv.2017, 1 ò, leg. Christophoryová J.; 61: town residential area, compost heap, sifting, 8.viii.2019, 1 ò, leg. Christophoryová J.

European distribution: Albania (present paper), Austria, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom ( Harvey 2013b).

Notes: Withius piger is recorded for the first time in Albania, the second-known country of its distribution in the Balkans. The species is considered to be synanthropic and is recorded mostly in warehouses, grain storages and farms, but sometimes also under tree bark (e.g., Beier 1963; Legg and Jones 1988; Tooren 2005). The obtained records correspond to the known habitat preferences of the species.

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Fig. 4. Distribution of the Olpiidae, Cheiridiidae, Atemnidae, Garypinidae, Geogarypidae, Cheliferidae, Chernetidae and Withiidae taxa in Albania.A, Amblyolpium dollfusi (purple colour), Apocheiridium ferum (grey colour), Atemnus syriacus (red colour), Calocheiridius libanoticus (blue colour), Geogarypus italicus (green colour), Geogarypus minor (orange colour), Withius piger (yellow colour). B, Beierochelifer peloponnesiacus (blue colour), Chelifer cancroides (red colour), Dactylochelifer latreillii (yellow colour), Hysterochelifer meridianus (green colour). C, Hysterochelifer cyprius (green colour), Rhacochelifer maculatus (yellow colour), Rhacochelifer peculiaris (red colour). D, Dendrochernes cyrneus (yellow colour), Dinocheirus panzeri (orange colour), Lamprochernes chyzeri (green colour), Lamprochernes nodosus (grey colour), Lasiochernes graecus (purple colour), Pselaphochernes lacertosus (red colour), Pselaphochernes scorpioides (blue colour). Circles indicate the published data, stars indicate the new data. For the locality codes, see table 1.

Fig. 6. First pseudoscorpion records for Albania from the families Cheliferidae, Chernetidae and Withiidae. A, Rhacochelifer peculiaris (male). B, Dinocheirus panzeri (male). C, Lamprochernes chyzeri (male). D, Withius piger (female). Scale bars = 1 mm.