Notes on the scorpions (Arachnida, Scorpiones) from Xizang with the redescription of Scorpiops jendeki Kovarik, 2000 (Scorpiones, Euscorpiidae) from Yunnan (China)
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Di, Zhiyong
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Xu, Xiaobo
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Cao, Zhijian
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Wu, Yingliang
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Li, Wenxin
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.301.4608
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.301.4608
1313-2970-301-51
Scorpiops hardwickii (Gervais, 1843)
Scorpiops hardwickii
:
Kovarik
, 2000b: 175-179, figs 14, 46, 56, 57.
Scorpiops hardwickii hardwickii
:Fet, 2000d: 492.
Materials reported.
1 male, 3 females and 3 juveniles, China, Xizang, Nyainqentangha Mts, Lhasa, 3800m, V. Major leg. FKCP.
Distribution.
Lhasa, Xizang (China); (Himachal, Uttar, Jammu, Kashmir, Punjab) India; Nepal; Pakistan.
Comments.
The list of
Scorpiops hardwickii
(Gervais, 1843)
"complex"
, provided by
Kovarik
& Ahmed (2009: 10)
, containing 12 species widely distributed in Asia.
Di et al. (2011a)
summarized the characters of
Scorpiops hardwickii
"complex"
: (1) color red brown to dark brown; (2) total length about 45-80 mm in adults; (3) fingers of pedipalps very strongly flexed (curved) in males, slightly flexed (undulated) in females; (4) ventral trichobothria on patella number 6-8; (5) pectinal teeth number 4-9; (6) length/width ratio of chela about 1.8-2.1; (7) fulcra absent; (8) patella with two small spinoid granules on the internal aspect.