Dracochela

{{Short description|Extinct genus of pseudoscorpions}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{geological_range|Givetian|Eifelian}} | grandparent_authority = Schawaller, Shear & Bonamo, 1991 | genus = Dracochela | parent_authority = Schawaller, Shear & Bonamo, 1991 | species = deprehendor | authority = Schawaller, Shear & Bonamo, 1991 }}

'''''Dracochela''''' is an extinct genus of stem group pseudoscorpions that lived in the Panther Mountain Formation of New York State during the Middle Devonian period. The genus contains a single species, '''''Dracochela deprehendor'''''.

It is known from fragments of the cuticle from nymphs. Its full name translates to “dragon claw who takes by surprise”.

==References== * {{aut|Schawaller, Wolfgang; Shear, William A. & Bonamo, Patricia M.}} (1991): The first Paleozoic pseudoscorpions (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpionida). ''American Museum Novitates'' '''3009'''. [http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5041 Abstract] - [http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5041/1/N3009.pdf PDF] * Judson, Mark L.I. (2012). "Reinterpretation of ''Dracochela deprehendor'' (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) as a stem-group pseudoscorpion" ''Palaeontology'', '''55'''.2 (March 2012) pages 261–283, redescribed the type material and an addition palpal fragment.

Category:Pseudoscorpion genera Category:Monotypic prehistoric arachnid genera Category:Devonian arachnids Category:Middle Devonian invertebrates Category:Devonian arthropods of North America Category:Fossil taxa described in 1991