I was also delighted to see the paper references Aristotle, who mentions pseudoscorpions a few times in his works. I looked up the originals to find the Bekker numbers; the 1910 Wentworth translation linked.

Historia Animalium 4.7,532a18 (https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55740594#page/177/mode/1up):

> And, further, the scorpion is furnished with claws, as is also the creature resembling a scorpion found within the pages of books.

Hist. An. 5.32,557b10 (https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55740594#page/251/mode/1up):

> In books also other animalcules are found, some resembling the grubs found in garments, and some resembling tailless scorpions, but very small.

#aristotle #pseudoscorpions :pseudoscorpion:

Catching up on my Journal of #Arachnology backlog…the aggregations of silken nests created by social pseudoscorpions (_Paratemnoides elongatus_) are nearly as efficient as honeybee 🐝 cells! :pseudoscorpion:

📄 Chapin KJ, Kittle A, Dornhouse A 2022. Social pseudoscorpion nest architecture provides direct benefits to group members and rivals the efficiency of honey bees. _Journal of Arachnology_ 50:323-334 https://doi.org/10.1636/JoA-S-21-017 :ClosedAccess: [DM for PDF]

#arachnews #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #sociality

Some #OpenAccess :OpenAccess: arachnid research from the ol' Google Scholar alert:

- Gotta love a good arachnids-eating-vertebrates article (and to no surprise, it's reptiles/amphibians). Enjoy the photos of spiders and scorpions eating frogs and lizards in Mexico & Costa Rica. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366953189/

- New silk research out of the Blackledge lab: anchor lines (a feature often left out of spiderweb models/simulations) double how much energy _Micrathena_ orbweaver webs can absorb. https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/doi/10.1242/jeb.245123/286587/

- The pseudoscorpion family Neobisiidae recorded for the first time from Hispaniola, bringing the island's total number of pseudoscorpion families to 14 https://bvearmb.do/handle/123456789/2110

#Arachnews #SciComm #arachnids #spiders #scorpions #pseudoscorpions

...published in Neotropical Entomology using @gbif mediated data:

How Can #ClimateChange Limit the Distribution of Cooperative #Pseudoscorpions in #Brazil? 🇧🇷

#CiteTheDOI: ❌

https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-01006-0

Moosskorpione (Neobisium sp.) sind aktuell noch unter Steinen oder an Totholz unterwegs. Allerdings sind die 3 mm kleinen Winzlinge schwer zu finden. Gefährlich sind sie für uns nicht.

#natur #artenvielfalt #nature #Pseudoscorpiones #Arthropoda #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoskorpione