Book Scorpions of Maine - working checklist

Maine Biota Project

Book Scorpions of Mount Desert Island

(Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Arthropoda, Class Arachnida, Order Pseudoscorpionida)

Below is a working list of Mount Desert Island’s book scorpions.

Family	Genus	Species	Authority	Common Name	Source (full citation given below this table)
Chthoniidae	Chthonius	tetrachelatus	?	?	Procter (1946, p. 510.)
Chernetidae	Chelanops	[sanborni?]	?	?	Procter (1946, p. 510.)
Chernetidae	Hesperochernes	tetrachelatus	?	?	Procter (1946, p. 510.)
Cheliferidae	Chelifer	cancroides	?	?	Procter (1946, p. 510.)
Neobisiidae	Microbisium	brunneum	?	?	Procter (1946, p. 510.)

Note:
Procter (1946) called this order Chelonethida.

Source:
Procter, William. 1946. Biological Survey of the Mount Desert Region, Part VII. Philadelphia: Wistar Institute.

Below is a working list of Mount Desert Island’s book scorpions.

Please e-mail corrections and updates to Glen at info@mainenaturalhistory.org

(updated 21 July 2020)