A review of the subgenus Pandinus Thorell, 1876 with descriptions of two new species from Uganda and Ethiopia (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae)
Author
Kovařík, František
text
Euscorpius
2011
2011-12-31
129
129
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https://mds.marshall.edu/euscorpius/vol2011/iss129/1/
journal article
10.18590/euscorpius.2011.vol2011.iss129.1
1536-9307
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Pandinus
(
Pandinus
)
gambiensis
Pocock, 1899
(
Fig. 42
)
Pandinus imperator gambiensis
Pocock, 1899: 836
.
Pandinus gambiensis
:
Vachon, 1967: 1534-1537
, figs. 1, 3-5, 9-11;
Vachon et al., 1970: 412-432
, figs. 1-14;
Prendini, 2004: 254
.
Pandinus
(
Pandinus
)
gambiensis
:
Vachon, 1974: 953
;
Kovařík, 1998: 140
;
Fet, 2000: 466
; Kovařík & Whitman, 2005: 114;
Kovařík, 2009: 56
, 126, figs. 386- 388.
TYPE
LOCALITY
AND
TYPE
REPOSITORY
.
Gambia
; the
Natural History Museum
,
London
,
United Kingdom
(
BMNH
)
.
DIAGNOSIS
. Total length
130–200 mm
. Base color uniformly brown to reddish brown. Legs colored approximately as body. Pectinal teeth number 15–19. Movable fingers of pedipalp and telson without noticeable sexual dimorphism. Spiniform formula of tarsomere II = 5/4: 6/4: 6/4: 6/4. Tarsomere II with 3 spines on inclined anteroventral surface. Chela with 10 ventral trichobothria.
Figures 1–5:
Pandinus mazuchi
sp. n.
, ♀ (92.5 mm) holotype.
1–2.
dorsal and ventral views.
3.
Pectinal area.
4.
Movable fin-
ger.
5.
Trichobothrial pattern. For explanation of trichobothrial nomenclature see
Vachon (1974)
and
Kovařík (2009: 28
, plate J).