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
1
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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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41616D18-D960-44D2-AADB-9CD8DF12FC44
Pandinus
Thorell, 1876
(
Figs. 1–42
)
Pandinus
Thorell, 1876: 12
;
Kraepelin, 1899: 116
;
Vachon, 1974: 953
, figs. 113-118;
Sissom, 1990: 136
;
Fet, 1997: 248
;
Fet, 2000: 465
; Prendini, 2000: 44;
Kovařík, 2009: 50
, figs. 284-420.
TYPE
SPECIES
.
Buthus imperator
C. L.
Koch, 1841
.
DIAGNOSIS
. Total length
60–220 mm
. Pedipalp femur with 3 trichobothria, only one of them on internal surface. Pedipalp patella with 13–16 external and numerous (usually about 30) ventral trichobothria. Retrolateral pedal spurs absent. Lateroapical margins of tarsi produced into rounded lobes. Metasomal segments I–IV with paired ventral submedian carinae. Stridulatory organ located on opposing surfaces of pedipalp coxa and first leg. Telson without subaculear tubercle.