''Pseudocellus'' is an arachnid genus in the order

Ricinulei Ricinulei is a small order of arachnids. Like most arachnids, they are predatory; eating small arthropods. They occur today in west-central Africa ('' Ricinoides'') and the Americas ('' Cryptocellus'' and '' Pseudocellus'') from Brazil to southern ...

, first described by

Norman Platnick Norman Ira Platnick (December 30, 1951 – April 8, 2020) was an American biological systematist and arachnologist. At the time of his death, he was a professor emeritus of the Richard Gilder Graduate School and Peter J. Solomon Family Curator E ...

in 1980. It is native to the

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Species

it contains forty-one species: * '' 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

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External links

* {{Authority control Arachnid genera Ricinulei Arthropods of Central America