ZooKeys (Sep 2012)

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

  • Gioele Tropea,
  • Ersen Yagmur,
  • Halil Koç,
  • Fatih Yeşilyurt,
  • Andrea Rossi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.219.3597
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 219, no. 0
pp. 63 – 80

Abstract

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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.