Pseudocellus

Pseudocellus
	Pseudocellus bifer male
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Ricinulei
Family:	Ricinoididae
Genus:	Pseudocellus; Platnick, 1980
Type species
	Cryptocellus dorotheae; Gertsch & Mulaik, 1939
Species
	41, see text

Pseudocellus is an arachnid genus in the order Ricinulei, first described by Norman Platnick in 1980. It is native to the Neotropics.^[1]

Species

As of October 2022^[update] it contains forty-one species:^[2]

Pseudocellus abeli Armas, 2017 — Cuba
Pseudocellus alux Armas & Agreda, 2016 — Guatemala
Pseudocellus aridus Teruel, 2015 — Cuba
Pseudocellus bifer Teruel, 2018 — Cuba
Pseudocellus barberi (Ewing, 1929) — Guatemala, Honduras (nomen dubium)
Pseudocellus blesti (Merrett, 1960) — Panama
Pseudocellus bolivari Gertsch, 1971 — Mexico
Pseudocellus boneti (Bolívar y Pieltain, 1942) — Mexico
Pseudocellus chankin Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2011 — Mexico
Pseudocellus cookei (Gertsch, 1977) — Guatemala
Pseudocellus cruzlopezi Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2013 — Mexico
Pseudocellus cubanicus (Dumitresco & Juvara-balş, 1973) — Cuba
Pseudocellus dissimilior Teruel, 2018 — Cuba
Pseudocellus dissimulans (Cooke & Shadab, 1973) — El Salvador
Pseudocellus dorotheae (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1939) — US
Pseudocellus franckei Valdez-Mondragón & Cortez-Roldán, 2020 — Mexico
Pseudocellus gertschi (Márquez & Conconi, 1974) — Mexico
Pseudocellus giribeti Valdez-Mondragón & Cortez-Roldán, 2021 — Mexico
Pseudocellus ignotus Armas, 2017 — Cuba
Pseudocellus jarocho Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2011 — Mexico
Pseudocellus krejcae Cokendolpher & Enríquez, 2004 — Belize
Pseudocellus mayari (Armas, 1977) — Cuba
Pseudocellus mitchelli Gertsch, 1971 — Mexico
Pseudocellus monjarazi Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2013 — Mexico
Pseudocellus olmeca Valdez-Mondragón, Francke & Botero-Trujillo, 2018 — Mexico
Pseudocellus osorioi (Bolívar y Pieltain, 1946) — Mexico
Pseudocellus oztotl Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2011 — Mexico
Pseudocellus pachysoma Teruel & Armas, 2008 — Cuba
Pseudocellus paradoxus (Cooke, 1972) — Cuba
Pseudocellus pearsei (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1938) — Mexico
Pseudocellus pelaezi (Coronado Gutierrez, 1970) — Mexico
Pseudocellus permagnus Armas, 2017 — Cuba
Pseudocellus platnicki Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2011 — Mexico
Pseudocellus quetzalcoatl Valdez-Mondragón, Francke & Botero-Trujillo, 2018 — Mexico
Pseudocellus reddelli (Gertsch, 1971) — Mexico
Pseudocellus relictus (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1938) — Panama
Pseudocellus sbordonii (Brignoli, 1974) — Mexico
Pseudocellus seacus Platnick & Pass, 1982 — Guatemala
Pseudocellus silvai (Armas, 1977) — Cuba
Pseudocellus spinotibialis (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1952) — Mexico
Pseudocellus undatus Armas, 2017 — Cuba
Pseudocellus valerdii Valdez-Mondragón & Juárez-Sánchez, 2021 — Mexico

References

^ Platnick, Norman (1980). "On the phylogeny of Ricinulei". In Gruber, Jürgen (ed.). Verhandlungen 8. Internationaler Arachnologen-Kongress abgehalten an der Universität für Bodenkultur, Wien. Vienna: H. Egermann. pp. 349–353.
^ "Genus: Pseudocellus Platnick, 1980". World Ricinulei Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.

G. Talarico, J. G. Palacios-Vargas & G. Alberti (2008). "Taste while chewing? Sensory structures in the chelicerae of Pseudocellus pearsei (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1938) (Ricinulei, Arachnida)". Revista Ibérica de Aracnología. 15: 47–53.
G. Talarico, J. G. Palacios-Vargas & G. Alberti (2008). "The pedipalp of Pseudocellus pearsei (Ricinulei, Arachnida) – ultrastructure of a multifunctional organ". Arthropod Structure & Development. 37 (6): 511–521. doi:10.1016/j.asd.2008.02.001. PMID 18502688.
Giovanni Talarico; Jose G. Palacios-Vargas; Mariano Fuentes Silva; Gerd Alberti (2005). "First ultrastructural observations on the tarsal pore organ of Pseudocellus pearsei and P. boneti (Arachnida, Ricinulei)". Journal of Arachnology. 33 (2): 604–612. doi:10.1636/04-110.1. JSTOR 4129861. S2CID 86221977.
Giovanni Talarico; José G. Palacios-Vargas; Mariano Fuentes Silva; Gerd Alberti (2008). "Ultrastructure of tarsal sensilla and other integument structures of two Pseudocellus species (Ricinulei, Arachnida)". Journal of Morphology. 267 (4): 441–463. doi:10.1002/jmor.10415. PMID 16425267. S2CID 25580911.

External links

Data related to Pseudocellus at Wikispecies

[1] Platnick, Norman (1980). "On the phylogeny of Ricinulei". In Gruber, Jürgen (ed.). Verhandlungen 8. Internationaler Arachnologen-Kongress abgehalten an der Universität für Bodenkultur, Wien. Vienna: H. Egermann. pp. 349–353.

[NMBE-2] "Genus: Pseudocellus Platnick, 1980". World Ricinulei Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.

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