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Savory - Arachnida 1977

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322 V. HETEROGRAPHlA<br />

.1\Jenge in 1854 added two more:<br />

Cheiromachus corriaceus<br />

Leiobunum longipes<br />

and Roewer brought the total to seven with<br />

Subacon bachofeni.<br />

VI. EPILEGOMENA<br />

Seven is not a large proportion of the I ,500 or so Palpatores alive<br />

today, but it is greater than the fossil representation of the sub-order<br />

Laniatores, of which but a single species, Gongyleptes nemastomoides, was<br />

described by Koch and Behrendt.<br />

False scorpions have left a rather better record. There are more than<br />

a dozen families of living Pseudoscorpiones, and nine of these are<br />

represented by 18 species in Baltic amber. There is also a description of<br />

a Miocene species from Burma.<br />

It may be noted that in both Araneae and Pseudoscorpiones the<br />

number of fossil species known is about 1 of the total: in Opiliones it<br />

is less than one-fifth of this.

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