Genera of the Atemninae are poorly defined. Anatemnus includes species with chelal trichobothria it and isb widely spaced, with it either midway between isb and the tip of the finger, or with it closer to the tip than to isb, but not all have this arrangement.
Atemnid pseudoscorpions
Atemnidae Kishida, 1929
Type genus: Atemnus Canestrini, 1884
Atemnidae lack a venom apparatus from the moveable chelal finger (Harvey 1992)
Publications
Harvey MS (1992): The phylogeny and classification of the Pseudoscorpionida (Chelicerata : Arachnida). Invertebrate Taxonomy. 6: 1373 - 1435
Pseudoscorpiones (Pseudoscorpions)
All classes
- Arachnida
- Crustacea
- Entognatha
- Gastropoda
- Insecta
- Orthoptera - Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
- Hymenoptera excl. Formicidae (bees and wasps)
- Blattodea s. str. (Cockroaches)
- Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Dermaptera (earwigs)
- Diptera (flies, mosquitos)
- Entomobryomorpha (slender springtails)
- Hemiptera - Heteroptera (True Bugs)
- Hemiptera - Sternorrhyncha (aphids, scales etc.)
- Hemiptera - Auchenorrhyncha (cicadas, planthoppers)
- Hymenoptera - Formicidae (Ants)
- Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
- Zygentoma (silverfish)
- Myriapoda