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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Pseudoscorpions (Pseudoscorpiones) » Iocheirata » Garypoidea » Garypidae » Garypus » Garypus californicus
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Garypus californicus? - Garypus californicus
Copyright © 2011 Alice Abela

Garypus californicus? - Garypus californicus
Rancho Guadalupe Dunes, Santa Barbara County, California, USA
August 7, 2011
Size: ~5mm
Found under kelp wrack on beach at the high tide line
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Contributed by Alice Abela on 10 August, 2011 - 12:05am
Last updated 21 July, 2016 - 10:08am

Moved
Moved from Pseudoscorpions.
… Ben Coulter, 21 July, 2016 - 10:08am login or register to post comments

ID
This one was identified by Dr. Mark Harvey as Garypus californicus
… Alice Abela, 20 July, 2016 - 9:55pm login or register to post comments

Thinking...
Doing searches for California pseudoscorpions associated with beach habitat, I found photos of Garypus that seem to match up with this guy. I don't have enough resolution to go through the key in https://ia600305.us.archive.org/14/items/occasionalpapers131cali/occasionalpapers131cali.pdf, but G. californicus seems consistent from the morphological description with the rows of spotted tergites. From what I could find on http://museum.wa.gov.au/catalogues/pseudoscorpions/genus/Garypus G. californicus might also be the only one in range.

Marshall Hedin has a photo of Garypus on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/23660854@N07/6226693666/in/photolist-nzw93Y-nRHnU8-87H67d-aaWwU7-ipfhTb-fERoqW-bGkJpa-auer6m that also looks close.

Maybe enough for genus on this guy?
… Alice Abela, 5 June, 2014 - 9:42pm login or register to post comments

Great one
Moved from ID Request.
… Lynette Elliott, 27 August, 2011 - 2:58pm login or register to post comments

as previously mentioned, this
as previously mentioned, this is a great photo!
… James Reben, 10 August, 2011 - 8:33am login or register to post comments

lovely shot!
… v belov, 10 August, 2011 - 7:35am login or register to post comments

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