Members of the family Melanoblossidae have perhaps the most
interesting distribution in the order Solifugae. They are known from
southern Africa and
southeastern Asia (Vietnam and Indonesia). The 16 known species are distributed among
six genera,, which in turn are divided among two subfamilies. The
southeast Asian genus Dinorhax (1 species) is the sole member of
the subfamily Dinorhaxinae, and the
southern African genera Daesiella (1 species), Lawrencega
(7 species), Melanoblossia (4 species), Microblossia (1
species), and Unquiblossia (2 species) are assigned to the Melanoblossinae.
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