{{Short description|Family of pseudoscorpions}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Neogene|present}} | taxon = Sternophoridae | authority = Chamberlin, 1923 }}
The '''Sternophoridae''' are a family of pseudoscorpions with about 20 described species in three genera. While ''Afrosternophorus'' is an Old World genus, found mainly in Australasia (with, despite its name, only one African species), the other two genera are found in the New World, from El Salvador to the southern USA and in the Dominican Republic.
==Genera== {{as of|2023|10}}, the ''World Pseudoscorpiones Catalog'' accepts the following three genera:<ref name="NMBE">{{cite web |date=2023 |title=Sternophoridae Chamberlin, 1923 |url=https://wac.nmbe.ch/order/pseudoscorpiones/genera/37 |access-date=15 October 2023 |website=World Pseudoscorpiones Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern}}</ref>
* ''Afrosternophorus'' <small>Beier, 1967</small> * ''Garyops'' <small>Banks, 1909</small> * ''Idiogaryops'' <small>Hoff, 1963</small>
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Category:Sternophoridae Category:Pseudoscorpion families Category:Taxa named by Joseph Conrad Chamberlin
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