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- Title
A new species of Physoctonus Mello-Leitão, 1934 from the 'Campos formations' of southern Amazonia (Scorpiones, Buthidae).
- Authors
Lourenço, Wilson R.
- Abstract
Further studies on new specimens of the rare genus Physoctonus Mello-Leitão, 1934, lead to the description of a third new species. Until now only Physoctonus debilis (C. L. Koch, 1840) and Physoctonus striatus Esposito et al., 2017, were known from sites located in the caatingas of the north-east region of Brazil. The new species of Physoctonus was collected by the French arachnologist J. Vellard in the Campos do Pará during his field trips back to the 1920/1930, and entrusted to the author in the early 1980s. The populations of P. debilis and P. striatus from north-east Brazil and that of the new species certainly present disrupted distributions. Biogeographical comments on this pattern of distribution are also added.
- Subjects
CAATINGA animals; SCANNING electron microscopy; RHOPALURUS; SCORPION behavior; TAXONOMY
- Publication
ZooKeys, 2017, Issue 711, p67
- ISSN
1313-2989
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3897/zookeys.711.20187