Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 331 (1997). 
Short communication 
Liocheles extensa, a replacement name for 
Liocheles longimanus Locket, 1995 (Scorpiones: Ischnuridae) 
N.A. Locket 
Department of Anatomical Sciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia 
Since describing Liocheles longimanus Locket, 
1995, I have become aware that the name 
longimanus was given to a subspecies of L. 
australasiae (Fabricius) by Werner (1939), thus 
causing a nomenclatural problem. 
Werner (1939) named his new subspecies 
Hormurus australasiae longimanus, which has not 
been subsequently mentioned in the taxonomic 
literature, nor formally transferred to the genus 
Liocheles (Dr V. Fet, personal communication), of 
which Hormurus is now accepted as a junior 
synonym (e.g., Koch 1977). Therefore, I here 
transfer Werner's subspecies to the genus Liocheles: 
Liocheles australasiae longimanus (Werner, 1939), 
comb. nov. 
Liocheles longimanus Locket, 1995, is therefore a 
junior secondary homonym of Liocheles australasiae 
longimanus (Werner, 1939) and thus requires a 
replacement name, for which I propose Liocheles 
extensa nom. nov. 
To establish the identity of Liocheles australasiae 
longimanus (Werner), I have now examined 
Werner's types, which came from Montes Battak, 
Sumatra and are now in the collection of the 
Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum 
Koenig, Bonn. 
Specimen 110 from that museum is female and 
111, male; the latter has been compared with the 
two specimens, both male, of L. extensa from the 
Northern Territory. It is plain on inspection that 
the N.T. specimens have much more elongate 
pedipalps than Werner's specimen, and 
measurements of proportions confirm this. In 
Werner's No. Ill L/W of patella and hand are 2.14 
and 3.63 respectively, compared with 2.73, 2.77 and 
4.85, 5.0 for the two N.T. specimens. Though 
Werner's No. Ill is male, examination of the 
hemispermatophore was not possible, the 
specimen having been pinned dry originally. 
The two forms are clearly distinct and it is not 
necessary to synonymise them. Werner's L. 
australasiae longimanus may be a valid subspecies of 
L. australasiae, but the present material is not 
sufficient to determine this for certain. 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
I wish to thank Dr Victor Fet for drawing my 
attention to this problem of nomenclature, he and 
Dr Mark Harvey for their helpful discussion, and 
Dr Franz Krapp of the Alexander Koenig Museum 
for access to the type material in his care. 
REFERENCES 
Koch, L.E. (1977). The taxonomy, geographic 
distribution and evolutionary radiation of Australo- 
Papuan scorpions. Records of the Western Australian 
Museum 5: 83-367. 
Locket, N.A. (1995). A new ischnurid scorpion from the 
Northern Territory, Australia. Records of the Western 
Australian Museum, Supplement 52: 191-198. 
Werner, F. (1939). Ueber einige Scorpione aus dem 
Museum Alexander Koenig. Festschrift zum 
Geburtstage von Professor Doktor Embrik Strand (Riga) 
5: 361-362. 
Manuscript received 13 February 1997; accepted 27 February 
1997. 
