Hitching a ride on a scorpion: the first record of phoresy of a myrmecophile pseudoscorpion on a myrmecophile scorpion

Sharon Warburg; Yoram Zvik; Efrat Gavish-Regev

doi:10.30963/aramit6605

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29 December 2023 Hitching a ride on a scorpion: the first record of phoresy of a myrmecophile pseudoscorpion on a myrmecophile scorpion

Sharon Warburg, Yoram Zvik, Efrat Gavish-Regev

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Arachnologische Mitteilungen: Arachnology Letters, 66(1):34-37 (2023). https://doi.org/10.30963/aramit6605

Abstract

An observation of phoresy by pseudoscorpions on a scorpion host is recorded for the first time worldwide. Pseudoscorpions of the endemic species Nannowithius wahrmani (Beier, 1963) (Pseudoscorpiones: Withiidae) were observed phoretic on the endemic scorpion species Birulatus israelensis Lourenço, 2002 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in Israel. Both are myrmecophiles of harvester ants of the genus Messor Forel, 1890.

Zum ersten Mal weltweit wurde Phoresie eines Pseudoskorpions auf einem Skorpion als Wirt festgestellt. In Israel wurden Pseudoskorpione der endemischen Art Nannowithius wahrmani (Beier, 1963) (Pseudoscorpiones: Withiidae) phoretisch auf der endemischen Skorpionart Birulatus israelensis Lourenço, 2002 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) beobachtet. Beide leben myrmekophil zusammen mit Ernteameisen aus der Gattung Messor Forel, 1890.

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Sharon Warburg, Yoram Zvik, and Efrat Gavish-Regev "Hitching a ride on a scorpion: the first record of phoresy of a myrmecophile pseudoscorpion on a myrmecophile scorpion," Arachnologische Mitteilungen: Arachnology Letters 66(1), 34-37, (29 December 2023). https://doi.org/10.30963/aramit6605

Received: 2 July 2023; Accepted: 10 December 2023; Published: 29 December 2023

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