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
Ananteris polleti
Lourenço, 2016
Ananteris polleti
Lourenço, 2016: 217-220
.
MATERIAL EXAMINED
. —
French Guiana
. Mitaraka, ‘La Planète Revisitée –
MNHN
/PNI Guyane 2015 (
APA
973-1)’,
FIG. 2. — Aerial view of the Massif of Mitaraka in French Guiana (photo: Xavier Desmier).
♂
Holotype
(
02°13’59.1”N
,
54°26’37.9”W
),
433 m
, tropical moist forest – in plateau,
2-8.III.2015
(M. Pollet). —
♂
paratype
(
02°14’17.8”N
,
54°27’08.2”W
),
352 m
, tropical moist forest – in slope,
25.II-3.III.2015
(M. Pollet).
REMARK This species is apparently extremely rare and most certainly endemic to the Mitaraka Massif.
Species described on the basis of two adult males (
Lourenço 2016b
).