''Lechytia'' is a genus of pseudoscorpions in the subfamily Lechytiinae within the family

Chthoniidae Chthoniidae is a family of pseudoscorpions within the superfamily Chthonioidea. The family contains more than 600 species in about 30 genera. Fossil species are known from Baltic, Dominican, and Burmese amber.Biology Catalog Chthoniidae now inc ...

. It is the sole genus in its subfamily and contains 22 described species from many parts of the world.

Species

* '' Lechytia anatolica'' Beier, 1965 — Turkey * '' Lechytia arborea'' Muchmore, 1975 —

Florida Florida ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the north, the Atlantic ...

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* '' Lechytia asiatica'' Redikorzev, 1938 —

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* '' Lechytia cavicola'' Muchmore, 1973 —

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

* '' Lechytia chilensis'' Beier, 1964 —

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

* '' Lechytia chthoniiformis'' (Balzan, 1887) — South America * '' Lechytia delamarei'' Vitali-di Castro, 1984 —

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* '' Lechytia dentata'' Mahnert, 1978 —

Republic of Congo The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo), is a country located on the western coast of Central ...

* † '' Lechytia finniae'' Hagen et al., 2025 —

fossil A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserve ...

: Kachin amber * '' Lechytia garambica'' Beier, 1972 —

Democratic Republic of Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...

* '' Lechytia himalayana'' Beier, 1974 —

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

* '' Lechytia hoffi'' Muchmore, 1975 — western USA * '' Lechytia indica'' Murthy & Ananthakrishnan, 1977 — India * '' Lechytia kuscheli'' Beier, 1957 —

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* '' Lechytia leleupi'' Beier, 1959 — Democratic Republic of Congo * '' Lechytia madrasica'' Sivaraman, 1980 — India * '' Lechytia martiniquensis'' Vitali-di Castro, 1984 —

Martinique Martinique ( ; or ; Kalinago language, Kalinago: or ) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It was previously known as Iguanacaera which translates to iguana island in Carib language, Kariʼn ...

* '' Lechytia maxima'' Beier, 1955 — Kenya, Tanzania * '' Lechytia natalensis'' (Tullgren, 1907) —

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* '' Lechytia sakagamii'' Morikawa, 1952 —

Caroline Islands The Caroline Islands (or the Carolines) are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Politically, they are divided between the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) in the cen ...

* '' Lechytia serrulata'' Beier, 1955 — Democratic Republic of Congo * '' Lechytia sini'' Muchmore, 1975 — Florida, Texas * † '' Lechytia tertiaria'' Schawaller, 1980 — fossil:

Dominican amber Dominican amber is amber from the Dominican Republic derived from resin of the extinct tree '' Hymenaea protera''. Dominican amber differentiates itself from Baltic amber by being nearly always transparent, and it has a higher number of fossil in ...

* '' Lechytia trinitatis'' Beier, 1970

Footnotes

References

* Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog
Lechytiidae

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