Abstract
Attention is drawn to the pseudoscorpion taxa published by Kyukichi Kishida (1927, 1929, 1940, 1947), which have been largely ignored in the literature outside Japan. Kishida (1929) was the first author to employ the names Chthonioidea Daday, 1888, Cheliferoidea Risso, 1826, Feaelloidea Ellingsen, 1906, Garypoidea Simon, 1879 and Olpioidea Banks, 1895 at the superfamilial rank, and the first to use the names Olpiidae Banks, 1895 and Pseudogarypidae Chamberlin, 1923 at the familial rank. He was also the first to propose a family-group name based on the genus Atemnus Canestrini, 1884, and is therefore the author of the family Atemnidae Kishida, 1929 and the coordinate subfamily Atemninae Kishida, 1929. The suborders Schizonota Kishida, 1929 and Holonota Kishida, 1929 are polyphyletic. Chelanops nipponicus (Kishida, 1927) is synonymized with Haplochernes boncicus (Karsch, 1881) (new subjective synonymy). Chelifer chamberlini Kishida, 1940, which was apparently described from Harbin, China, is considered a species inquirenda. The pseudoscorpion nomina nuda published by Kishida are listed.
