Harms Danilo, McRae Jane, Curran Michael, Harvey Mark S
Section Arachnida and Myriapoda, Centre for Taxonomy and Morphology, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany; and Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia; and Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, 9301, South Africa.
Bennelongia Environmental Consultants, 5 Bishop Street, Jolimont, WA 6014, Australia.
Invertebr Syst. 2025 Sep;39. doi: 10.1071/IS25028.
Conservation management in ancient landscapes has shifted in recent years from the protection of single species to the broader management of areas of high biodiversity. One of the landscapes that has most benefited from this shift is the south-west of Western Australia, an internationally recognised biodiversity hotspot and one of the oldest and most stable landscapes on Earth. Significant progress has been made in recent years to identify refugia in the south-west and prioritise them for invertebrate protection but more studies are still needed to assist practical conservation management. Here, we describe a new genus of pseudoscorpions from south-western Australia (Pseudoscorpiones: Pseudotyrannochthoniidae: Karrichthonius gen. nov. ) that has speciated extensively within mesic refugia. Karrichthonius is endemic to the High Rainfall Province of the biodiversity hotspot and features often-localised populations in spatially isolated mesic habitats. Through a combination of DNA barcoding, morphological features and spatial mapping, we infer 12 species: Karrichthonius giganteus (Beier, 1971) comb. nov. , K. booraraensis , sp. nov. , K. buzattoi , sp. nov. , K. dalei , sp. nov. , K. farquhari , sp. nov. , K. heatherae , sp. nov. , K. leniae , sp. nov. , K. porongurupensis , sp. nov. , K. pyungurupensis , sp. nov ., K. rixi , sp. nov. , K. talyuberlupensis , sp. nov. and K. toolbrunupensis , sp. nov . All species are short-range endemics and occur in landforms that are either known refugia for invertebrate conservation or inferred here as potential refugia to be recognised and analysed further. By mapping species distributions and providing species diagnoses, we contribute to an understanding of invertebrate biodiversity in the south-west, and strengthen the concepts that are underlying conservation management practices in biodiversity hotspots. ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EC51BFC7-0C8E-49D6-A704-DA59648B2325.
近年来，古代景观的保护管理已从单一物种的保护转向对高生物多样性区域的更广泛管理。从这一转变中受益最大的景观之一是西澳大利亚州的西南部，它是国际公认的生物多样性热点地区，也是地球上最古老、最稳定的景观之一。近年来，在确定西南部的避难所并将其列为无脊椎动物保护的优先区域方面取得了重大进展，但仍需要更多研究来协助实际的保护管理工作。在此，我们描述了一种来自澳大利亚西南部的新伪蝎属（伪蝎目：伪暴君蝎科：卡里奇托尼亚蝎属，新属），该属在中生避难所内广泛分化。卡里奇托尼亚蝎属是生物多样性热点地区高降雨省份的特有属，其种群通常局限于空间隔离的中生栖息地。通过结合DNA条形码、形态特征和空间绘图，我们推断出12个物种：巨型卡里奇托尼亚蝎（Beier，1971），新组合；博拉腊卡里奇托尼亚蝎，新物种；布扎托卡里奇托尼亚蝎，新物种；戴尔卡里奇托尼亚蝎，新物种；法夸尔卡里奇托尼亚蝎，新物种；希瑟卡里奇托尼亚蝎，新物种；莱尼亚卡里奇托尼亚蝎，新物种；波龙古拉普卡里奇托尼亚蝎，新物种；平古拉普卡里奇托尼亚蝎，新物种；里克卡里奇托尼亚蝎，新物种；塔利尤伯卢普卡里奇托尼亚蝎，新物种；图尔布鲁努普卡里奇托尼亚蝎，新物种。所有物种都是短程特有种，分布于已知的无脊椎动物保护避难所或在此推断为有待进一步确认和分析的潜在避难所的地形中。通过绘制物种分布图并提供物种诊断，我们有助于了解西南部的无脊椎动物生物多样性，并强化生物多样性热点地区保护管理实践的基础概念。动物学文献库：urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EC51BFC7-0C8E-49D6-A704-DA59648B2325。
