Microbisium

Microbisium is a genus of pseudoscorpions in the family Neobisiidae. There are about 12 described species in Microbisium.

Microbisium
Microbisium parvulum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Pseudoscorpiones
Family:	Neobisiidae
Subfamily:	Neobisiinae
Genus:	Microbisium J. C. Chamberlin, 1930
Synonyms
Afrobisium Beier, 1932 Nepalobisium Beier, 1974

Species

These 12 species belong to the genus Microbisium:

• Microbisium brevifemoratum (Ellingsen, 1903) ^{i c g}
• Microbisium brevipalpe (Redikorzev, 1922) ^{i c g}
• Microbisium brunneum (Hagen, 1868) ^{i c g b}
• Microbisium congicum Beier, 1955 ^{i c g}
• Microbisium dogieli (Redikorzev, 1924) ^{i c g}
• Microbisium fagetum Cîrdei, Bulimar and Malcoci, 1967 ^{i c g}
• Microbisium lawrencei Beier, 1964 ^{i c g}
• Microbisium manicatum (L. Koch, 1873) ^{i c g}
• Microbisium parvulum (Banks, 1895) ^{i c g b}
• Microbisium pygmaeum (Ellingsen, 1907) ^{i c g}
• Microbisium suecicum Lohmander, 1945 ^{i c g}
• Microbisium zariquieyi (Navás, 1919) ^{i c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 978-1402062421.
• Comstock, John Henry (1912). The spider book: A manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whip-scorpions, harvestmen, and other members of the class arachnida, found in America North of Mexico, with analytical keys for their clas... ISBN 978-1295195817.
• Harvey, Mark S. (2002). "The neglected cousins: what do we know about the smaller arachnid orders?". The Journal of Arachnology. 30 (2): 357–372. doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0357:TNCWDW]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0161-8202. S2CID 59047074.
• Jackman, John A. (2002). A Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Texas. Gulf Publishing. ISBN 978-0877192640.

External links

• Harvey, M.S. (2013). "Pseudoscorpions of the World, version 3.0". Western Australian Museum, Perth. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
• Media related to Microbisium at Wikimedia Commons