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Dinocheirus panzeri, male. Arrow indicates the pseudotactile seta on the tarsus of leg Iv. Scale line: 1 mm
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A total of 102 pseudoscorpion specimens belonging to five species, four genera, and two families were collected in the Curonian Spit National Park (Lithuania). The genus Dinocheirus Chamberlin, 1929 and the species D. panzeri (C. L. Koch, 1836) are newly recorded from Lithuania.
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... were preserved in 75% ethanol. They were studied as temporary slide mounts, prepared by immersing specimens in lactic acid for clearing. After the study, they were rinsed in water and returned to 75% ethanol. The digital photograph (Fig. 3) was taken using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera attached to a Zeiss Axio Zoom V16 stereomicroscope. Image stacks were produced manually, combined using the Zerene Stacker software, and subsequently edited in Adobe Photoshop CC. Pseudoscorpion species were identified using the key in ...
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... panzeri (C. L. Koch, 1836) (Fig. 3 Rafalski (1967) found the species in mammal burrows in Poland. The presence inside farm buildings, chicken houses and pigeon lofts was recorded mostly in the northern areas of the species range (Lohmander 1939, Legg & Jones 1988) while in Central Europe, the majority of D. panzeri findings concerned tree hollows (Šťáhlavský 2001, ...
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... in Moscow ( Krajčovičová et al. 2018a), D. panzeri is the only known species of the genus that is widespread in Europe (WPC 2022). Among the main diagnostic characters of the genus are the female spermathecae with a pair of long tubes each ending with terminal bulb and relatively long pseudotactile seta situated distally on the tarsus of leg IV (Fig. 3) (Beier ...
