{{Short description|Family of pseudoscorpions}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Gymnobisium inukshuk (10.3897-subtbiol.36.60162) Figure 1 (cropped).jpg | image_caption = A cave-dwelling ''Gymnobisium inukshuk''<ref>{{Cite journal|title=The Wynberg Cave System, the most important site for cave fauna in South Africa at risk|url=https://subtbiol.pensoft.net/article/60162/|journal=Subterranean Biology|date=2020-11-16|issn=1314-2615|pages=73–81|volume=36|doi=10.3897/subtbiol.36.60162|language=en|first1=Rodrigo Lopes|last1=Ferreira|first2=Gonzalo|last2=Giribet|first3=Gerhard Du|last3=Preez|first4=Oresti|last4=Ventouras|first5=Charlene|last5=Janion|first6=Marconi Souza|last6=Silva |doi-access=free }}</ref> | taxon = Gymnobisiidae | authority = Beier, 1947 }}
'''Gymnobisiidae''' is a family of pseudoscorpions found throughout South America and southern Africa. South Africa hosts eight distinct species<ref>{{Cite journal|title=A systematic revision of the South African Gymnobisiidae (Pseudoscorpiones: Neobisioidea)|journal=Zootaxa|date=2023-03-23|issn=1175-5334|pmid=37044633|pages=501–543|volume=5256|issue=6|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.5256.6.1|first1=J. A.|last1=Neethling|first2=C.|last2=Neethling}}</ref> including the troglobitic Gymnobisium inukshuk.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=The Wynberg Cave System, the most important site for cave fauna in South Africa at risk|url=https://subtbiol.pensoft.net/article/60162/|journal=Subterranean Biology|date=2020-11-16|issn=1314-2615|pages=73–81|volume=36|doi=10.3897/subtbiol.36.60162|language=en|first1=Rodrigo Lopes|last1=Ferreira|first2=Gonzalo|last2=Giribet|first3=Gerhard Du|last3=Preez|first4=Oresti|last4=Ventouras|first5=Charlene|last5=Janion|first6=Marconi Souza|last6=Silva |doi-access=free }}</ref>
==Genera== * ''Beierobisium'' Vitali-di Castri, 1970 * ''Gymnobisium'' Beier, 1931 * ''Mirobisium'' Beier, 1931 * ''Vachonobisium'' Vitali-di Castri, 1963
==References== {{Reflist}}
* Beier, 1947: ''Zur Kenntnis der Pseudoscorpionidenfauna des südlichen Afrika, insbesondere der südwest- und südafrikanischen Trockengebiete.'' Eos, Madrid, vol. 23, p.285-339.
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Category:Pseudoscorpion families Category:Pseudoscorpions
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