Five species of Chelifer (including Ch. cancroides) and five of Chernes have been recorded in England.
Fig. [225].—Chelifer cyrneus, enlarged. (After Simon.)
Fig. [226].—Chiridium museorum, enlarged. (After Simon.)
Sub-Fam. 2. Garypinae.—The Garypinae have the cephalothorax greatly contracted in front and often projecting considerably.
Fig. [227].—Olpium pallipes, enlarged. (After Simon.)
There are three genera, Chiridium, Olpium, and Garypus. Chiridium is eyeless, and appears to have only ten segments in the abdomen, the tergal plates of which are bisected. C. museorum is found in England, and is the only Chernetid except Chelifer cancroides which habitually lives in houses. C. ferum is found under bark in the south of France.
Neither Olpium nor Garypus, which both possess four eyes and eleven abdominal segments, have as yet been found in this country. Garypus, like Chiridium, has the dorsal abdominal plates bisected. There is a transverse stria on the cephalothorax, and the eyes are far from the anterior border. In Olpium the dorsal plates are undivided and the eyes more anterior.