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Diagram showing the anatomy of a pseudoscorpion from both dorsal and ventral views, with labeled body parts including pedipalps, eyes, carapace, legs, chelicerae, spiracles, and other key features.

Chart titled Diversity of arachnids comparing a Silurian fossil scorpion and 11 living groups, including spiders, scorpions, mites, daddy longlegs, sunspiders, whip scorpions, and false scorpions. Illustrations show their varied forms and typical size ranges from 0.1 millimeters to 210 millimeters; fossil anatomy labels identify pincers, pedipalps, legs, and body sections.

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Diagram showing the anatomy of a pseudoscorpion from both dorsal and ventral views, with labeled body parts including pedipalps, eyes, carapace, legs, chelicerae, spiracles, and other key features.

Pseudoscorpion

Anatomy of a pseudoscorpion (or false scorpion).

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Chart titled Diversity of arachnids comparing a Silurian fossil scorpion and 11 living groups, including spiders, scorpions, mites, daddy longlegs, sunspiders, whip scorpions, and false scorpions. Illustrations show their varied forms and typical size ranges from 0.1 millimeters to 210 millimeters; fossil anatomy labels identify pincers, pedipalps, legs, and body sections.

Arachnid diversity

A sampling of the diversity of arachnids.

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