A new remarkable species of Alloscorpiops Vachon, 1980 from Myanmar (Burma) (Scorpiones, Scorpiopidae)

By

Lourenço, Wilson
Košulič, Ondřej

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

775

Pages

47-58

Subjects

Alloscorpiops , Biodiversity , Burma , new species

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.775.24248

 

Abstract

Among the genera of the family Scorpiopidae Kraepelin, 1905Alloscorpiopsremains yet rather discrete. New species were added to this genus only recently, increasing its number from two to six. Therefore, species ofAlloscorpiopscan be considered rare and uncommonly collected. One particular new species,Alloscorpiopsviktoriaesp. n., is described based on two females and one pre-adult male collected from the northern part of central Myanmar (Burma). The new species presents most features exhibited by scorpions of the genusAlloscorpiops, but it is characterised by a moderate to small size, very strongly marked granulation, and a particular trichobothrial pattern. Aspects of the ecology and distribution of the new species are discussed and compared with those of other species of genusAlloscorpiops.