Dashdamirov S.1, Golovatch S.I.2 2006. Miscellanea chernetologica (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones), based on the collection of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Part 1 // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.14 (for 2005). No.4: 299–301 [in English].
1 Institut für Zoomorphologie, Zellbiologie und Parasitologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat, Universitatsstr. 1, Düsseldorf 40225 Germany. E-mail: dashdamirov@selvin.de
2 Institute for Problems of Ecology & Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071 Russia.
KEY WORDS: Pseudoscorpiones, Neobisiidae, Microbisium, synonymy, parthenogenesis.
ABSTRACT. Revision of the holotype of Nepalobisium franzi Beier, 1974, from Nepal, showed this species to be a new junior subjective synonym of Microbisium brevifemoratum (Ellingsen, 1903), while the genus Nepalobisium Beier, 1974 is a new junior subjective synonym of Microbisium Chamberlin, 1930, both syn.n. Parthenogenesis seems to be characteristic of several Microbisium species, both Palaearctic and Nearctic.