Nueva especie de Tityus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) del Turimiquire, Venezuela

 

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Autores: De Sousa, Leonardo, Manzanilla, Jesús, Parrilla-Álvarez, Pedro
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2006
Beskrivelse:We describe a new species of Buthid scorpion, Tityus quirogae, from the Turimiquire mountains, eastern side of the La Costa range, Monagas and Sucre States, Venezuela. It is morphologically similar to T. nematochirus and T. meridanus. It dif-fers from these species in the distribution of the dorsal femoral trichobothria and in the following combination of characters: (1) I caudal segment with two parallel ventral keels. Caudal segments II to IV with ventral keels that are double in the extremes of the segments and single in the middle, (2) noticeable sexual dimorphism, especially in pedipalp shape; the male chelae are markedly thin and long, (3) number of pectineous teeth (male: 18 in each pecten; female: 18 in the right pecten and 19 in the left one), and (4) number of denticle rows in the movable finger of the right chela (16 in both sexes). T. quirogae is the first species of this genus, in the Northeastern region of Venezuela, with thin and elongated pedipalps.
País:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Sprog:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/13900
Online adgang:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/13900
Palabra clave:escorpión
Buthidae
Tityus
nueva especie
Turimiquire
Venezuela