Compsaditha

Compsaditha is a genus of pseudoscorpions in the family Chthoniidae. There are about 12 described species in Compsaditha.

Compsaditha
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Pseudoscorpiones
Family:	Chthoniidae
Subfamily:	Tridenchthoniinae
Genus:	Compsaditha J. C. Chamberlin, 1929

Species

These 12 species belong to the genus Compsaditha:

• Compsaditha aburi Chamberlin and R.V. Chamberlin, 1945
• Compsaditha angustula Beier, 1972
• Compsaditha basilewskyi Beier, 1962
• Compsaditha camponota Sivaraman, 1980
• Compsaditha congica Beier, 1959
• Compsaditha elegantula Beier, 1972
• Compsaditha fiebrigi (Beier, 1931)
• Compsaditha gressitti Beier, 1957
• Compsaditha indica Murthy, 1960
• Compsaditha parva Beier, 1951
• Compsaditha pygmaea Chamberlin, 1929
• Compsaditha seychellensis Beier, 1974

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... BiblioLife. ISBN 978-1295195817.
• Harvey, Mark S. (1992). "The phylogeny and classification of the Pseudoscorpionida (Chelicerata : Arachnida)". Invertebrate Taxonomy. 6 (6): 1373–1435. ISSN 0818-0164.
• 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 2018-03-08.