A NEW CAVERNICOLOUS PAROBISIUM CHAMBERLIN 1930 (PSEUDOSCORPIONES: NEOBISIIDAE) FROM YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, U. S. A.

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article JAMES C. COKENDOLPHER, JEAN K. KREJCA (2010): A NEW CAVERNICOLOUS PAROBISIUM CHAMBERLIN 1930 (PSEUDOSCORPIONES: NEOBISIIDAE) FROM YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, U. S. A. Occasional Papers of the Museum 297: 1-28, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15748478 ABSTRACT A new species of troglobitic Parobisium pseudoscorpion is described from two caves developed in granite talus slopes in the Yosemite Valley, U.S.A. The 16 species of the genus are all from the northern hemisphere (western U.S.A., China, Japan, South Korea).

A taxonomic key to the genus in the U.S.A. is provided. The new species has only an anterior pair of pale colored eyespots without tapetum and is blind. Extensive searching at other shallow nearby caves and on the surface has not revealed any other specimens of this species, although it is common within certain areas of the two known caves.