A new species of Euscorpius Thorell, 1876 (Scorpiones, Euscorpiidae) from Turkey

By

Yağmur, Ersen Aydın
Koç, Halil
Yeşilyurt, Fatih
Rossi, Andrea

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2012

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

219

Pages

63-80

Subjects

Euscorpius , new species , Scorpion , Turkey

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.219.3597

 

Abstract

A new species of the genus Euscorpius Thorell, 1876 is described based on specimens collected from Dilek Peninsula (Davutlar, Aydın) in Turkey. It is characterized by an oligotrichous trichobothrial pattern (Pv= 7, et= 5/6, eb= 4) and small size. Euscorpius (Euscorpius) avcii sp. n. is the first named species of the subgenus Euscorpius from Turkey.