Rhacochelifer peculiaris (L. Koch, 1873)

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 : 18

Rhacochelifer peculiaris (L. Koch, 1873) ( Figs. 4C , 6A ) ▲

New data: 42: pine trees on a hill, under Pinus nigra barks, individual sampling, 26.iv.2016, 3 ñ, 2 ò, leg. Christophoryová J.; 42: pine trees on a hill, under Pinus nigra barks, individual sampling, 27.iv.2016, 3 ñ, 3 ò, 8 T, 1 D, 1 P, leg. Christophoryová J.

European distribution: Albania (present paper), Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland ( Harvey 2013b).

Notes: Rhacochelifer peculiaris is recorded in Albania for the first time. Albania represents the third-known country of its distribution in the Balkans. Beier (1963) mentioned the occurrence of the species in leaf litter and under tree bark, which corresponds to the present findings. Comparison of both recorded Rhacochelifer species shows that R. peculiaris was found only under the bark of one coniferous tree, whereas R. maculatus was more common and was collected from under the bark of different types of deciduous tree.

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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.