Christophoryová J.1*, Ruchin A.B.2, Turbanov I.S.3,4 2025. Pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) of the Republic of Mordovia (European Russia) // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.34. No.4: 589–597 [in English].
1 Department of Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6, SK-842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia.
2 Joint Directorate of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve and National Park “Smolny”, Krasnaya Street 30, Saransk, Republic of Mordovia 430005 Russia.
3 Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Yaroslavl Region 152742 Russia.
4 T.I. Vyazemsky Karadag Scientific Station – Nature Reserve of the RAS – Branch of A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS, Nauki Str. 24, Theodosia 298188 Crimea.
* Corresponding author
Jana Christophoryová: christophoryova@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3746-1367
Alexander Ruchin: ruchin.alexander@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2653-3879
Ilya Turbanov: turba13@mail.ru; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9441-2791
doi:10.15298/arthsel.34.4.10
ABSTRACT. To date, no special studies of the pseudoscorpion fauna of the Republic of Mordovia have been conducted. The only pseudoscorpion species previously known from this territory was Dendrochernes cyrneus (L. Koch, 1873). During the present research, seven species belonging to six genera and two families were discovered. All findings were mapped, and habitus photographs were taken of the identified species. The results obtained have supplemented the knowledge of the pseudoscorpion fauna of the Republic of Mordovia, as well as that of European Russia and Eastern Europe.
KEY WORDS: distribution, ecology, faunistics, Mordovia State Nature Reserve, National Park “Smolny”.