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    1) A species of schizomid, Stenochrus portoricensis, was collected from a greenhouse in Brno, Czech Republic, representing the first record of this order in the country. 2) S. portoricensis naturally occurs in the Caribbean and Mexico but has been accidentally introduced elsewhere through greenhouse habitats in Europe, North America, South America, and islands like the Canary Islands. 3) All specimens collected in the Czech greenhouse were juveniles or females, suggesting the population may be parthenogenetic. Further surveys could help uncover how widely distributed this species may be across European greenhouses.

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    1) A species of schizomid, Stenochrus portoricensis, was collected from a greenhouse in Brno, Czech Republic, representing the first record of this order in the country. 2) S. portoricensis naturally occurs in the Caribbean and Mexico but has been accidentally introduced elsewhere through greenhouse habitats in Europe, North America, South America, and islands like the Canary Islands. 3) All specimens collected in the Czech greenhouse were juveniles or females, suggesting the population may be parthenogenetic. Further surveys could help uncover how widely distributed this species may be across European greenhouses.

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    1) A species of schizomid, Stenochrus portoricensis, was collected from a greenhouse in Brno, Czech Republic, representing the first record of this order in the country. 2) S. portoricensis naturally occurs in the Caribbean and Mexico but has been accidentally introduced elsewhere through greenhouse habitats in Europe, North America, South America, and islands like the Canary Islands. 3) All specimens collected in the Czech greenhouse were juveniles or females, suggesting the population may be parthenogenetic. Further surveys could help uncover how widely distributed this species may be across European greenhouses.

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    Arachnologische Mitteilungen 38: 1-3

    Nrnberg, Dezember 2009

    Stenochrus portoricensis new to the Czech Republic (Schizomida, Hubbardiidae)


    Stanislav Korenko, Mark Harvey & Stano Pekr
    Abstract: A schizomid, Stenochrus portoricensis Chamberlin, 1922 (family Hubbardiidae), was collected in a greenhouse in Brno. This is the rst discovery of a schizomid from the Czech Republic.
    Key words: Faunistics, greenhouse, introduced species

    The named world schizomid fauna comprises 38


    genera and 218 species, but numerous species from
    many parts of the world have yet to be described
    (HARVEY 2003). In nature schizomids are exclusively
    known from tropical and subtropical regions, but three
    species have been recorded from greenhouses in Europe: Schizomus crassicaudatus (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872)
    from Sri Lanka was imported to France and Zomus
    bagnallii ( Jackson, 1908) from South-east Asia was
    introduced to Great Britain (BLICK 2006). Recently,
    we collected Stenochrus portoricensis Chamberlin,
    1922 within a greenhouse in the Czech Republic.
    Stenochrus portoricensis naturally occurs in Mexico
    and the Caribbean (ROWLAND & REDDELL 1980,
    MARTN & OROM 1984, REDDELL & COKENDOLPHER 1995, TOURINHO & KURY 1999), but
    has been accidentally introduced into many countries
    of North and South America (Brazil, Ecuador and
    Florida) and even in Europe: Spain (Canary Islands
    politically, but not geographically, a part of Europe),
    Great Britain and Germany (BLICK 2006, COKENDOLPHER et al. 2006). In continental Europe, the
    species occurs only in heated greenhouses, whereas
    the Canary Islands populations came from caves and
    inside houses (MARTN & OROM 1992, OROM &
    MARTN 1992).

    Stenochrus portoricensis Chamberlin, 1922

    Diagnosis and description: From the other two


    schizomid genera (Zomus and Schizomus) found in
    Europe, Stenochrus is distinguished by the combiStanislav KORENKO & Stano PEKR, Department of Botany and
    Zoology, Faculty of Sciences, Masaryk University, Kotlsk 2,
    611 37 Brno, Czech Republic, E-Mail: pekar@sci.muni.cz
    Mark HARVEY, Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Western
    Australian Museum, Locked Bag 49, Welshpool DC, Western
    Australia 6986, Australia
    eingereicht: 13.7.2009, akzeptiert: 7.8.2009; online verfgbar: 1.9.2009

    nation of the following characters: female agellum


    with three segments (Fig. 1), anterior process of
    propeltidium with only one pair of setae arranged
    one behind the other (Fig. 2), metapeltidium entire
    (Fig. 2), movable cheliceral nger without accessory
    teeth (Fig. 3), and by a mesal spur on the trochanter
    of the pedipalp (Fig. 4).
    Stenochrus portoricensis can be distinguished from
    other species of the genus by the characters of the
    internal genitalia of females (see ROWLAND & REDDELL 1980, figs 46-53; SANTOS et al. 2008, fig. 8).
    Detailed diagnoses and descriptions can be found in
    ROWLAND & REDDELL (1980), TOURINHO & KURY
    (1999), ARMAS (2004) and SANTOS et al. (2008).

    Material
    Greenhouse, Botanical Garden of the Masaryk University,
    310 m a.s.l., Brno (4912'17"N, 1635'47"E), 22 October
    2008, 1, 1 juv , leg. S. Korenko; same site, 15 January
    2009, 2, 1 juv , leg. S. Korenko, E. Lznarov & L.
    Sentensk; same site, 28. January 2009, 3, 2 juv ,
    leg. S. Korenko, E. Lznarov & L. Sentensk; same site,
    5, 4 juv , 5 February 2009 leg. S. Korenko & S.
    Pekr (specimens lodged in the Masaryk University, Brno
    and Western Australian Museum, Perth).

    Natural History
    We found specimens under pieces of bark lying on wet
    soil. In America, S. portoricensis has been collected in
    abandoned arboreal termite nests in a cocoa plantation
    (SANTOS et al. 2008), termite and ant nests (REDDELL & COKENDOLPHER 1995), disturbed habitats
    (TOURINHO & KURY 1999), caves (ROWLAND &
    REDDELL 1980), and under rocks of an urbanised
    beach and in litter in metropolitan Rio de Janeiro
    (SANTOS et al. 2008).
    In the laboratory specimens readily fed exclusively
    on collembolans. In the greenhouse we found also thysanurans, ants and spiders in the litter so these might
    be preyed upon too. SANTOS et al. (2008) found this

    S. Korenko, M. Harvey & S. Pekr

    Figs. 1-4: Female of Stenochrus portoricensis. 1. Flagellum (dorsal view). 2. Propeltidium with one pair of setae arranged one behind
    the other (dorsal view). Arrows point to the position of setae. 3. Chelicerae (lateral view). 4. Right pedipalp (prolateral view).
    Arrow points to the mesal spur of patella. Scales = 0.1 (A) and 0.2 (B-D) mm.

    species within ant and termite nests, where it possibly


    feeds on woodlice, collembolans, beetles, termites or
    ants.
    All collected specimens (N = 19) were juveniles or
    females, suggesting that the population may be parthenogenetic. Males of this species are not commonly
    collected (ROWLAND & REDDELL 1980, REDDELL
    & COKENDOLPHER 1995, ARMAS 2004), and in
    many parts of its range the species is presumably
    facultatively parthenogenetic (REDDELL & COKENDOLPHER 1995). Stenochrus portoricensis might be
    widely distributed in greenhouses throughout Europe;
    therefore, faunistic surveys would be welcome.

    Acknowledgements
    We would like to thank M. Tup and M. Chytr for
    their kind assistance in the Botanical Garden, and Eva
    Lznarov and Lenka Sentensk for their help with collecting schizomids. This study was supported by grant no.
    MSM0021622416 provided by the Ministry of Education,
    Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. SK was further
    supported by grant no. 526/09/H025 from the Czech
    Science Foundation.

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