Garypinid Pseudoscorpions

Garypinidae Daday, 1889

Type genus: Garypinus Daday, 1889

(after Harvey 2023): Garypinidae differs from all other pseudoscorpion families as follows: from Chthonioidea and Feaelloidea in the presence of venom glands in the chelal fingers; from Neobisioidea in the presence of only 1 or 2 distal teeth or lobes on the movable cheliceral finger; from Garypidae, Geogarypidae and Larcidae in the rectangular carapace and with the eyes situated near the anterior carapaceal margin; from Menthidae in the presence of 8 or fewer trichobothria on the fixed chelal finger; and from Sternophoroidea, Cheiridioidea and Cheliferoidea in the presence of separate metatarsi and tarsi on the legs. There are no unambiguous family-level differences with Hesperolpiidae and Olpiidae but Amblyolpiinae and Garypininae differ from these in the presence of divided arolia, and Protogarypininae and Garypininae differ in the basal concentration of trichobothria on the prolateral face of the fixed finger.

(after Harvey 2013): Four eyes near anterior border, fixed finger with four internal trichobothria.