The scorpions from the Mitaraka Massif in French Guiana (Scorpiones: Buthidae, Chactidae)
Author
Lourenço, Wilson R.
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, case postale 30, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) wilson. lourenco @ mnhn. fr
lourenco@mnhn.fr
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Zoosystema
2018
2018-07-23
40
14
367
374
journal article
9264
10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a14
94a0febe-8d5b-4f8c-a4e4-175ae92d3878
1638-9387
4335854
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C868777B-0BA7-4B34-B6BD-02395C6CE14A
Tityus
(
Archaeotityus
)
silvestris
Pocock, 1897
Tityus silvestris
Pocock, 1897: 363
, 364.
NEW
MATERIAL
. —
French Guiana
.
1 ♂
,
Mitaraka
, ‘
La Planète Revisitée
–
MNHN
/PNI
Guyane
2015 (
APA 973-1
)’,
02°13’59.1”N
,
54°26’37.9”W
,
433 m
, tropical moist forest
– in plateau,
2
-8.III.2015
(
M. Pollet
). —
1 ♀
, MTK-HC,
Mitaraka
(
Hand Catch
),
24
-
27.II.2015
(
E. Poirier
,
P.-H. Dalens
& J.
Touroult
)
.
REMARK
This species was described by
Pocock (1897)
from the region of Santarém in Brazilian Amazonia. Subsequently it proved to be largely distributed all over
French Guiana
and the Amazon region. It presents a very high polymorphism for some morphometric characters (
Lourenço 1988
). It was recorded for several sites in
French Guiana
by
Lourenço (1983)
, but the record for the Mitaraka region is new.