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A new species ofEuscorpius(Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) from southern Bulgaria

Author(s) -

Gioele Tropea,

Victor Fet,

Aristeidis Parmakelis,

Panayiota Kotsakiozi,

Iasmi Stathi

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

arachnologische mitteilungen arachnology letters

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292

H-Index - 10

eISSN - 2199-7233

pISSN - 1018-4171

DOI - 10.5431/aramit4902

Subject(s) - scorpion , geography , zoology , biology , fishery , venom

A new scorpion species, Euscorpius drenskii sp. nov., is described from the Western Rhodope Mts. in southern Bulgaria. It is characterized by an oligotrichous trichobothrial pattern, which shows a conspicuous loss of one trichobothrium in the external median patellar series (em = 3), also observed in E. carpathicus (Linnaeus, 1767) and the subgenus Alpiscorpius Gantenbein, Fet, Largiadèr & Scholl, 1999. Phylogenetic analysis of 16S rDNA marker sequences does not show any close relationship between these three groups, suggesting that the observed loss of a trichobothrium is an independent event

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