BOOK SCORPIONS Pseudoscorpiones
The book scorpion specimens at the Natural History Museum Basel come mostly from the Büttiker Collection and from museum expeditions to Bhutan, Nepal, India and Pakistan. They are joined by regional and Central European specimens, which were mainly collected by Ehrenfried Schenkel on his many field trips.
The type catalogue mostly contains species from the Arabian peninsula, which had been collected by Willi Büttiker and studied by Volker Mahnert. Max Beier examined the samples from the Himalayas.
The type collection includes a total of 67 entries of 30 taxa.
