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<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA2495D325FBB8FE32" box="[964,1034,604,628]" captionStart="Figures 920" captionStartId="11.[116,190,1913,1935]" captionTargetBox="[129,1461,231,1903]" captionTargetId="figure-144@11.[129,1461,231,1903]" captionTargetPageId="11" captionText="Figures 920. Position of femur trichobothrium d 2in Grosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Dorsal surfaces of proximal pedipalp femur of adult females (♀, left panels) and adult males (♂, right panels), underUV fluorescence to highlightgranulation,carinae and trichobothrial areolae.Whitearrows indicate positions of trichobothrium d in each image. G. madagascariensis (9, 10; 2 samples from Anjiro (9) and Andasibe (10) show consistency of d 2 2 position),G. hirtus(11), G. voahangyae (12), T. ankarafantsika (13, 15; 2 samples fromAmpijoroa show consistency ofd 2position),T. ankarana (14), T. flavopiceus (16), T. grandidieri (17), T. limbatus (18), T. mahafaliensis (19), and T. olgae (20). Scale bars: 1 mm (920♀) or 500 μm (20 ♂)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143618" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143618/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">1320</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA2345D325FBEBFE32" box="[1044,1113,604,628]" captionStart-0="Figures 2127" captionStart-1="Figures 2829" captionStart-2="Figures 3035" captionStart-3="Figures 3639" captionStartId-0="14.[113,188,1859,1881]" captionStartId-1="18.[113,190,1953,1975]" captionStartId-2="19.[113,190,1773,1795]" captionStartId-3="20.[113,190,1388,1410]" captionTargetBox-0="[114,1474,227,1840]" captionTargetBox-2="[118,1455,257,1710]" captionTargetBox-3="[121,1471,246,1361]" captionTargetId-0="figure-206@14.[113,1474,222,1851]" captionTargetId-1="figure-131@18.[113,1474,255,1915]" captionTargetId-2="figure-204@19.[113,1474,251,1714]" captionTargetId-3="figure-425@20.[113,1474,234,1383]" captionTargetPageId-0="14" captionTargetPageId-1="18" captionTargetPageId-2="19" captionTargetPageId-3="20" captionText-0="Figures 2127. Positions of trichobothria Eb, Eb and petite Eb on manus of pedipalp chela in Grosphus, Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. 1 2 3 n. Figures 2124. External views of pedipalp chela, shown under UV fluorescence to highlight trichobothrial areolae. G. hirtus ♂ (21), G. madagascariensis ♀ (22), T. limbatus ♂ (23), T. ankarafantsika ♀ (24). Positions of Eb 1, Eb 2 and Eb 3 and lines joining them shown as white overlays. Scale bars: 2 mm. Figures 2526. Horizontal histograms comparing ratios, R = d(Eb, Eb)/ d(Eb, Eb), of Eb -Eb distance, to Eb - 123 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 Eb distance, in males (25), and females (26) of Grosphus, Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Error bars indicate ranges (minimum, maximum), 2 histogram bars mid-range values. Figure 27. Scatter plot of male vs. female ratios R. Ratio is larger in males if points fall above the diagonal 123 (gray) line, larger in females if they fall below it." captionText-1="Figures 2829. Variation in pectinal tooth count (PTC) in Grosphus, Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Horizontal histograms comparing PTC in males (28), and females (29) of Grosphus, Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Error bars indicate ranges (minimum, maximum), bars mid-range values." captionText-2="Figures 3035. Variation in pectinal tooth count (PTC) in Grosphus, Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Figures 3031. Logarithmic scatter plots showing scaling of PTC vs. carapace length in males (30), and females (31) of Grosphus, Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Color lines are least squares linear regression fits of scaling trends for the different genera. Figures 3233. Logarithmic scatter plots showing scaling of PTC vs. carapace length in Figs. 3031 superposed upon overall scaling trends for a larger sample of male (32) and female (33) buthids including both α and β trichobothrial configurations (gray symbols; 1055♂, 1046♀). Dark lines: least squares linear regression fits of scaling trends for larger sample of buthids. Figures 3435. Logarithmic scatter plots showing scaling of PTC vs. carapace length in Figs. 3031 superposed upon overall scaling trends for a larger sample of male (34) and female (35) α-buthids restricted to α trichobothrial configurations (gray symbols; 445♂, 371♀). Dark lines: least squares linear regression fits of scaling trends for α-buthids. Numbers: slopes of regression lines (= allometric exponents). Purple symbols and lines: outgroup Pseudolychas." captionText-3="Figures 3639. Comparative biometrics of female basal pectinal tooth and hemispermatophore trunk of Grosphus, Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Figures 3637. Logarithmic scatter plots showing scaling of length of female basal pectinal tooth vs. carapace length (36), and hemispermatophore trunk length vs. carapace length (37). Color lines: least squares linear regression fits of scaling trends for the different genera. Figures 3839. Logarithmic scatter plots of female basal pectinal tooth length vs. hemispermatophore trunk length (38), and the ratio of basal pectinal tooth length/ hemispermatophore trunk length (%) vs. hemispermatophore trunk length, showing fraction of trunk spanned by the female tooth (39). Female basal pectinal tooth length measured as chord length, from more proximal corner (along comb axis) at base of tooth, to more distal corner (along comb axis) at tip of tooth. Trunk length measured from proximal edge of basal lobe to pedicel (foot). Color lines: least squares linear regression fits of scaling trends for the different genera." figureDoi-0="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143620" figureDoi-1="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143622" figureDoi-2="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143626" figureDoi-3="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143628" httpUri-0="https://zenodo.org/record/7143620/files/figure.png" httpUri-1="https://zenodo.org/record/7143622/files/figure.png" httpUri-2="https://zenodo.org/record/7143626/files/figure.png" httpUri-3="https://zenodo.org/record/7143628/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">2339</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA23E5D325FB48FE32" box="[1204,1274,604,628]" captionStart="Figures 7185" captionStartId="26.[113,190,1701,1723]" captionTargetBox="[149,1434,231,1678]" captionTargetId="figure-287@26.[146,1446,225,1690]" captionTargetPageId="26" captionText="Figures 7185. Hemispermatophores and capsule regions of Teruelius gen n. Multi-panel figures show: whole hemispermatophore; whole hemispermatophore and/or capsule with flagellum; capsule region in convex (or convex compressed), anterior and posterior views (panels in left to right sequence). Right hemispermatophores. Figure 71. T. ankarana, whole hemispermatophore. Scale bar: 4 mm. Figure 72. T. ankarana, capsule, left mirrored, Forêt dAnkavanana, FMNH. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 73. T. grandidieri, whole hemispermatophore (flagellum truncated). Scale bar: 4 mm. Figure 74. T. grandidieri, capsule, Antsakabe River, FMNH. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 75. T. flavopiceus, whole hemispermatophore. Scale bar: 2 mm. Figure 76. T. flavopiceus, capsule, Madagascar, GLPC, FKCP. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 77. T. annulatus, capsule, Tsimanampetsotsa National Park, GLPC, FKCP. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 78. T. ankarafantsika, capsule and flagellum. Scale bar: 400 μm. Figure 79. T. ankarafantsika, capsule, Forêt dAnkavanana, FMNH. Scale bar: 200 μm. Figure 80. T. ankarafantsika, capsule, Réserve Forestière de lAnkarafantsika, FMNH. Scale bar: 200 μm. Figure 81. T. olgae, capsule, Itampolo village, FMNH. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 82. T. limbatus, whole hemispermatophore (flagellum truncated). Scale bar: 2 mm. Figure 83. T. limbatus, capsule, Forêt dIanasana, FMNH. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 84. T. mahafaliensis, capsule views, Zombitse-Vohibasia National Park, GLPC, FKCP. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 85. T. intertidalis, capsule, Madagascar, GLPC, FKCP. Scale bar: 500 μm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143641" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143641/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">7185</figureCitation>
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Figures 95, 97, 100110. Male, carapace and tergites IIII (95), sternopectinal region and sternites (97). Pedipalp chela, dorsal (100), external (101), and ventrointernal (102) views. Pedipalp patella, dorsal (103), external (104), and ventral (105) views. Pedipalp femur and trochanter, internodorsal (106) and dorsoexternal (107) views. Pedipalp chela, movable finger dentate margin (108). Distal segments of right legs IIIIV, retrolateral views (109110). Figures 96, 9899. Female, carapace and tergites IIII (96), sternopectinal region and sternites (98), and pedipalp chela dorsoexternal (99). The trichobothrial pattern is indicated in Figures 101104, 106107 (white circles)." captionText-1="Figures 110113. Biometric scaling of spiracles of sternite IV in Grosphus, Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Figures 110111. Logarithmic scatter plots showing scaling of single spiracle area/ (carapace length)2 vs. carapace length in males (110), and females (111) of Grosphus, Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Spiracle length was largest diameter (approximately along mediolateral axis), width was smallest diameter (approximately along rostrocaudal axis). Area was from closed boundary curve: anterior edge of opening sharply delineated, posterior edge sometimes less sharp and fitted with spline curve extrapolating lateral edge curvature and tracing shadow of raised posterior margin. Brown line is least squares linear regression fit of scaling trends for Teruelius. R = Pearson correlation coefficient, and P value as indicated. Plotted points are means, error bars SE. Figures 112113. Logarithmic scatter plots showing thermal (terrestrial temperature) scaling of spiracle area/ (carapace length)2 in males (112), and females (113) of Grosphus, Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Gray lines are least squares linear regression fits of scaling trends for all points. R = Pearson correlation coefficient, P value as indicated. Plotted points are means, error bars SE. Land surface temperatures at known collection sites were averaged over all sites for each species. Collection sites were extracted from published data and FMNH records. Temperatures were extracted from published model data of Chabot-Couture et al. (2014), who estimated annual mean daytime temperature by statistical processing and Kriging of remote sensing spectral radiance by AQUA satellite." captionText-2="Figures 114116. Biometrics of spiracles of sternite IV in Grosphus, Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Logarithmic scatter plots showing sexual dimorphism of spiracle area/ (carapace length)2 (114), spiracle width/ carapace length (115), and spiracle length/ width (116) in Grosphus, Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Plotted points are means, error bars SE. Ratios are larger in males if points fall above the diagonal (gray) line, larger in females if they fall below it." captionText-3="Figures 117120. Distributions of Grosphus, Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. n. superposed on climate maps. Figure 117. Collection sites superposed on average rainfall map. Figure 118. Collection sites superposed on land temperature map. Figure 119. Distribution of each genus according to average rainfall. Figure 120. Distribution of each genus according to land temperature. Vertical histogram bars in Figs 119120 are means, error bars SE. P-values and asterisks indicate significant differences of Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. n. means from Grosphus means. Symbols in bar charts are collection sites collapsed along rainfall axis (119), or temperature axis (120). Inset horizontal histograms show relative (normalized) densities of points vs. rainfall or temperature (vertical axes). Collection sites were extracted from published data and FMNH records. Rainfall and temperatures were extracted from published model data of Chabot-Couture et al. (2014), who estimated January and July rainfalls by interpolation of RFE 2.0 data, and annual mean daytime temperature by statistical processing and Kriging of remote sensing spectral radiance by AQUA satellite. We averaged January and July rainfalls to generate a single map." captionText-4="Figure 121. Bioclimatic zone distributions of Grosphus, Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. n. in Madagascar. Collection sites were extracted from published data and FMNH records, and their bioclimatic classification visualized by superposition on zone boundaries defined by Cornet (1974). Colored regions show zones as delineated by Cornet, and symbols for genera are placed on the map and on zone keys of Cornet (upper left inset) to show ranges of humidity and temperature tolerance of each genus." figureDoi-1="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143657" figureDoi-2="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143663" figureDoi-3="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143665" figureDoi-4="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143669" httpUri-1="https://zenodo.org/record/7143657/files/figure.png" httpUri-2="https://zenodo.org/record/7143663/files/figure.png" httpUri-3="https://zenodo.org/record/7143665/files/figure.png" httpUri-4="https://zenodo.org/record/7143669/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">99105, 106121</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA24F8D305FBBBFED2" box="[937,1033,636,660]" captionStart="Figures 133144" captionStartId="40.[113,190,1293,1315]" captionTargetBox="[118,1474,249,1273]" captionTargetId="figure-523@40.[113,1474,227,1273]" captionTargetPageId="40" captionText="Figures 133144. Ventral setation of telotarsus III in Grosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Ventral surfaces of right telotarsus III of adult males (♂) or females (♀), shown under UV fluorescence to highlight setation. Macrosetae appear dark with strongly fluorescent cuticular sockets at their base. Putative chemosensory microsetae appear bright. G. hirtus (= G. h. garciai) (133), G. hirtus (134), G. madagascariensis (135, from Anjiro, 136 from Andasibe), G. voahangyae (137), T. ankarafantsika (138), T. limbatus (139), T. mahafaliensis (140), T. ankarana (141), T. grandidieri (142), T. flavopiceus (143), and T. olgae (144). Scale bars: 500 μm (133140, 144) and 1 mm (141143)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143677" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143677/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">137144</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA2345D305FBC6FED2" box="[1044,1140,636,660]" captionStart-0="Figures 145157" captionStart-1="Figures 158-160" captionStartId-0="41.[113,190,1502,1524]" captionStartId-1="42.[113,190,695,717]" captionTargetBox-0="[113,1474,234,1490]" captionTargetBox-1="[114,1470,251,674]" captionTargetId-0="figure-392@41.[113,1474,234,1490]" captionTargetId-1="figure-866@42.[113,1474,234,683]" captionTargetPageId-0="41" captionTargetPageId-1="42" captionText-0="Figures 145157. Comparative intensity of UV fluorescence in Grosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Photographic comparison of fluorescence emission intensities of representative species of each genus, including adult males (♂) or females (♀). G. madagascariensis (145 from Anjiro, 148 from Andasibe), G. hirtus (146), G. voahangyae (147), G. hirtus (= G. h. garciai) (149), T. ankarafantsika (150), T. grandidieri (151), T. olgae (152), T. flavopiceus (153), T. ankarana (154155), T. mahafaliensis (156), and T. limbatus (157). Images acquired under identical intensities of UV excitation (395 nm LED source, 0.35 A current) and camera exposure (Canon EOS 7D Mark II, 100 mm f/13, 0.5 s, ISO 320), with 475 nm longpass filter to block excitation wavelengths. Scale bars: 10 mm (145150, 152153, 156157), 20 mm (151, 154155)." captionText-1="Figures 158-160. Comparative intensity of UV fluorescence in Grosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Figure 158. Horizontal histograms comparing relative fluorescence emission intensities measured by photodiode current, for Grosphus and Teruelius species.Histogram bars are means, error bars are SE, species averages over all samples, male and female (sexes not significantly different, P&gt; 0.05). Sample sizes: G. hirtus, 1♂, 1♀; G. sp. nr hirtus, 6♀; G. madagascariensis, 9♂, 1♀; G. voahangyae, 4♂, 1♀; T. ankarafantsika, 2♂, 2♀; T. ankarana, 1♂, 1♀; T. flavopiceus, 1♂, 1♀; T. grandidieri, 1♂, 1♀; T. limbatus, 6♂, 5♀; T. mahafaliensis, 2♂, 2♀; T. olgae, 1♂, 1♀. Sample means may not reflect single specimen intensities recorded in Figs. 145157. Figure 159. Time course of photodiode current in UV fluorescence emission measurement for T. limbatus (upper curve), and two specimens of G. madagascariensis (middle and lower curves) over 620 s. Arrow indicates time of shutter opening to initiate UV excitation.160. Photobleaching time course for UV fluorescence emission of T. limbatus (middle curve) and G. madagascariensis (upper and lower curves) over 600 s following shutter opening (see Fig. 159). Ordinate is percentage bleaching relative to initial fluorescence after shutter opening. Blue curves are mono-exponential fits with decay time constants: T. limbatus, 640.2 s; G. madagascariensis, #1 654.4 s and #2 347.5 s." figureDoi-0="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143681" figureDoi-1="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143685" httpUri-0="https://zenodo.org/record/7143681/files/figure.png" httpUri-1="https://zenodo.org/record/7143685/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">150160</figureCitation>
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Teruelius ankarafantsika. Habitus. Male paratype (387388) and female holotype (389390), dorsal (387, 389) and ventral (388, 390) views. Scale bar: 10 mm." captionText-1="Figures 391408. Teruelius ankarafantsika. Male paratype (391393, 404405) and female holotype (394403, 406408). Figures 391402. Pedipalp.Chela in dorsal (391, 394), external (392, 395) and ventral (396) views. Patella in dorsal (397), external (398) and ventral (399) views. Femur and trochanter in internal (393, 400) and dorsal (401) views. Pedipalp chela, movable finger dentate margin (402). Figures 403408. Telson in lateral (403, 404) views. Metasoma and telson in lateral (405, 406), dorsal (407) and ventral (408) views.Scale bar: 10 mm (406408)." captionText-10="Figure 459. Teruelius feti. Holotype juvenile male. Habitus, dorsal view, with specimen labels (FMNH). Scale bar: 5 mm (holotype). Figure 459a. Adult female from Makay Mts., carapace and tergites III." captionText-11="Figures 460472. Teruelius feti. Holotype male. Metasoma and pedipalp. Figures 460462. Metasoma in dorsal (460), lateral (461) and ventral (462) views. Figures 463472. Pedipalp. Chela in dorsal (463), external (464) and ventral (465) views. Patella in dorsal (466), external (467) and ventral (468) views. Femur and trochanter in internal (469), dorsal (470), ventral (471) and external (472) views. Right femur shows developmental anomaly (Figs. 469, 472). Scale bars: 2 mm (460462, 463472)." captionText-12="Figures 473476. Teruelius flavopiceus. Habitus. Male (473474) and female (475476), dorsal (473, 475) and ventral (474, 476) views. Scale bar: 10 mm." captionText-13="Figures 477490. Teruelius flavopiceus, male. Figures 477486. Pedipalp chela, dorsal (477), external (478) and ventrointernal (479) views; pedipalp patella, dorsal (480), external (481) and ventral (482) views; pedipalp femur and trochanter, internal (483) and dorsal (484) views; pedipalp chela, movable (485) and fixed (486) finger dentate margin. The trichobothrial pattern is indicated by white circles in Figures 477a484a. Figures 487490. Right legs tibia, basitarsus and telotarsus, retrolateral views. Leg IV (487), leg III (488), leg. II (489), leg I (490)." captionText-14="Figures 491494. Teruelius grandidieri. Habitus. Male (491492) and female (493494), dorsal (491, 493) and ventral (492, 494) views. Scale bar: 10 mm." captionText-15="Figures 495499. Teruelius intertidalis, female holotype. Figures 495496. Habitus in dorsal (495) and ventral (496) views, and original labels. Figures 497499. Metasoma in lateral (497), ventral (498) and dorsal (499) views. Scale bars: 10 mm." captionText-16="Figures 500511. Teruelius intertidalis, female holotype. Figures 500508. Pedipalp chela, dorsal (500), external (501) and ventrointernal (502) views; pedipalp patella, dorsal (503), external (504) and ventral (505) views; pedipalp femur and trochanter, internal (506) and dorsal (507) views; pedipalp chela, movable finger dentate margin (508). Figure 509. Carapace and tergites IIII. Figure 510. Sternopectinal region. Figure 511. Telson lateral view." captionText-17="Figures 512515. Teruelius intertidalis, female holotype. Left legs tibia, basitarsus and telotarsus, retrolateral views. Leg I (512), leg II (513), leg III (514), leg IV (515)." captionText-18="Figures 516521. Teruelius limbatus. Figures 516519. Habitus. Male (516517) and female (518519), dorsal (516, 518) and ventral (517, 519) views. Figure 520. Pedipalp chela external, male. Figure 521. Pedipalp chela, movable finger dentate margin, female. Scale bar: 10 mm (516519)." captionText-19="Figures 522525. Teruelius mahafaliensis. Habitus. Male holotype of G. rossii (522523) and male from near the type locality of T. mahafaliensis (524525), dorsal (522, 524) and ventral (523, 525) views. Scale bar: 10 mm." captionText-2="Figures 409417. Teruelius ankarafantsika. Male paratype (409, 416417) and female holotype (410415). Figures 409411. Carapace and tergites IIII (409410) and sternopectinal region (411). Figures 412417. Left legs tibia, basitarsus and telotarsus, retrolateral views. Leg I (412), leg II (413), leg III (414, 416), leg IV (415, 417)." captionText-20="Figures 526537. Teruelius mahafaliensis, female (526, 529530, 535), male (527528, 531534) and male holotype of G. rossii (536537). Sternopectinal region (526527). Carapace and tergites III (528). Pedipalp chela, movable finger dentate margin (529). Pedipalp chela dorsal (530531) and external (532) views. Pedipalp patella dorsal (533) view. Pedipalp femur and trochanter dorsal (534) view. Metasoma V and telson lateral (535) view. Metasoma and telson dorsal (536) and ventral (537) views. Scale bar: 10 mm (536537)." captionText-21="Figures 538541. Teruelius mahafaliensis, male holotype of G. rossii. Left legs tibia, basitarsus and telotarsus, retrolateral views. Leg I (538), leg II (539), leg. III (540), leg IV (541)." captionText-22="Figures 542546. Teruelius olgae, male paratype.Figures 542543. Habitus, dorsal (542) and ventral (543) views, and original labels. Figures 544546. Metasoma and telson in lateral (544), ventral (545) and dorsal (546) views. Scale bars: 10 mm (542543, 544546)." captionText-23="Figures 547551. Teruelius olgae, female. Figures 547548. Habitus, dorsal (547) and ventral (548) views. Scale bar: 10 mm. Figures 549551. Metasoma and telson. lateral (549), ventral (550) and dorsal (551) views. Scale bar: 5 mm." captionText-24="Figures 552563. Teruelius olgae, male paratype. Figures 552560. Pedipalp chela, dorsal (552), external (553) and ventrointernal (554) views; pedipalp patella, dorsal (555), external (556) and ventral (557) views; pedipalp femur and trochanter, internal (558) and dorsal (559) views; pedipalp chela, movable finger dentate margin (560). Figure 561. Carapace and tergites III. Figure 562. Sternopectinal region. Figure 563. Telson lateral view." captionText-25="Figures 564575. Teruelius olgae. Female pedipalp. Chela in dorsal (564), external (565), ventral (566) and internal (567) views. Patella in dorsal (568), external (569), ventral (570) and internal (571) views. Femur and trochanter in dorsal (572), internal (573), external (574) and ventral (575) views. Scale bar: 2 mm." captionText-26="Figures 576579. Teruelius olgae, male paratype. Right legs tibia, basitarsus and telotarsus, retrolateral and ventral views. Leg I (576), leg II (577), leg III (578), leg IV (579)." captionText-3="Figures 418419. Teruelius ankarana. Habitus. Male in dorsal (418) and ventral (419) views. Scale bar: 10 mm." captionText-4="Figures 420421. Teruelius ankarana. Habitus. Female in dorsal (420) and ventral (421) views. Scale bar: 10 mm." captionText-5="Figures 422425. Teruelius annulatus. Habitus. Male (422423) and female (424425), dorsal (422, 424) and ventral (423, 425) views. Scale bar: 10 mm." captionText-6="Figures 426435. Figures 426432. Teruelius annulatus. Male (426, 428, 430431) and female (427, 429). Sternopectinal region (426427). Carapace and tergites IIII (428). Pedipalp chela dorsal (429430). Pedipalp chela, movable finger dentate margin (431). Metasoma V and telson lateroventral view (432). Figures 433435. Teruelius bistriatus. Female (433434) and male (435) syntypes. Sternopectinal region (433, 435). Carapace and tergites IIII (434)." captionText-7="Figures 436438. Teruelius bistriatus. Habitus. Female syntype in dorsal (436) and ventral (437) views, and original labels (438). Scale bar: 10 mm." captionText-8="Figures 439446. Teruelius bistriatus. Metasoma and telson. Male (439, 441443) and female syntypes (440, 444446), lateral (439441, 444), ventral (442, 445) and dorsal (443, 446) views. Scale bars: 10 mm (441443, 444446)." captionText-9="Figures 447458. Teruelius bistriatus. Pedipalp. Female (447452) and male (453458) syntypes. Pedipalp chela, dorsal (447, 453), external (448, 454) and ventrointernal (449, 455) views; pedipalp patella, dorsal (450, 456) and ventral (457) views; pedipalp femur and trochanter in dorsal (451, 458) views; pedipalp chela, movable finger dentate margin (452). 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SPECIES.
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ETYMOLOGY. The generic epithet
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(masculine) is a patronym honoring Rolando Teruel from
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DIAGNOSIS. A member of the
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group differentiated as follows: medium-sized to large-sized scorpions, adults ca.
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<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA24FFD585FC6AF952" box="[942,984,1276,1300]" captionStart="Figures 426435" captionStartId="93.[113,190,1928,1950]" captionTargetBox="[113,1474,234,1874]" captionTargetId="figure-72@93.[113,1474,234,1874]" captionTargetPageId="93" captionText="Figures 426435. Figures 426432. Teruelius annulatus. Male (426, 428, 430431) and female (427, 429). Sternopectinal region (426427). Carapace and tergites IIII (428). Pedipalp chela dorsal (429430). Pedipalp chela, movable finger dentate margin (431). Metasoma V and telson lateroventral view (432). Figures 433435. Teruelius bistriatus. Female (433434) and male (435) syntypes. Sternopectinal region (433, 435). Carapace and tergites IIII (434)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143788" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143788/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">431</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA24B5D585FBBDF952" box="[996,1039,1276,1300]" captionStart="Figures 447458" captionStartId="96.[113,190,1958,1980]" captionTargetBox="[133,1446,260,1921]" captionTargetId="figure-61@96.[113,1474,236,1929]" captionTargetPageId="96" captionText="Figures 447458. Teruelius bistriatus. Pedipalp. Female (447452) and male (453458) syntypes. Pedipalp chela, dorsal (447, 453), external (448, 454) and ventrointernal (449, 455) views; pedipalp patella, dorsal (450, 456) and ventral (457) views; pedipalp femur and trochanter in dorsal (451, 458) views; pedipalp chela, movable finger dentate margin (452). Pedipalp of male is mirrored." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143794" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143794/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">452</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA234BD585FBC8F952" box="[1050,1146,1276,1300]" captionStart="Figures 477490" captionStartId="100.[113,190,1928,1950]" captionTargetBox="[110,1468,256,1846]" captionTargetId="figure-92@100.[110,1471,244,1880]" captionTargetPageId="100" captionText="Figures 477490. Teruelius flavopiceus, male. Figures 477486. Pedipalp chela, dorsal (477), external (478) and ventrointernal (479) views; pedipalp patella, dorsal (480), external (481) and ventral (482) views; pedipalp femur and trochanter, internal (483) and dorsal (484) views; pedipalp chela, movable (485) and fixed (486) finger dentate margin. The trichobothrial pattern is indicated by white circles in Figures 477a484a. Figures 487490. Right legs tibia, basitarsus and telotarsus, retrolateral views. Leg IV (487), leg III (488), leg. II (489), leg I (490)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143803" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143803/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">485486</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA23D7D585FB02F952" box="[1158,1200,1276,1300]" captionStart="Figures 500511" captionStartId="103.[113,190,1928,1950]" captionTargetBox="[113,1465,240,1881]" captionTargetId="figure-73@103.[113,1474,234,1881]" captionTargetPageId="103" captionText="Figures 500511. Teruelius intertidalis, female holotype. Figures 500508. Pedipalp chela, dorsal (500), external (501) and ventrointernal (502) views; pedipalp patella, dorsal (503), external (504) and ventral (505) views; pedipalp femur and trochanter, internal (506) and dorsal (507) views; pedipalp chela, movable finger dentate margin (508). Figure 509. Carapace and tergites IIII. Figure 510. Sternopectinal region. Figure 511. Telson lateral view." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143811" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143811/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">508</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA23EDD585FB54F952" box="[1212,1254,1276,1300]" captionStart="Figures 516521" captionStartId="105.[113,190,1958,1980]" captionTargetBox="[146,1426,242,1905]" captionTargetId="figure-51@105.[136,1452,232,1918]" captionTargetPageId="105" captionText="Figures 516521. Teruelius limbatus. Figures 516519. Habitus. Male (516517) and female (518519), dorsal (516, 518) and ventral (517, 519) views. Figure 520. Pedipalp chela external, male. Figure 521. Pedipalp chela, movable finger dentate margin, female. Scale bar: 10 mm (516519)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143815" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143815/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">521</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA23A2D585FAACF952" box="[1267,1310,1276,1300]" captionStart="Figures 526537" captionStartId="107.[113,190,1928,1950]" captionTargetBox="[113,1458,234,1912]" captionTargetId="figure-80@107.[113,1468,234,1919]" captionTargetPageId="107" captionText="Figures 526537. Teruelius mahafaliensis, female (526, 529530, 535), male (527528, 531534) and male holotype of G. rossii (536537). Sternopectinal region (526527). Carapace and tergites III (528). Pedipalp chela, movable finger dentate margin (529). Pedipalp chela dorsal (530531) and external (532) views. Pedipalp patella dorsal (533) view. Pedipalp femur and trochanter dorsal (534) view. Metasoma V and telson lateral (535) view. Metasoma and telson dorsal (536) and ventral (537) views. Scale bar: 10 mm (536537)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143819" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143819/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">529</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA2278D585FAE7F952" box="[1321,1365,1276,1300]" captionStart="Figures 552563" captionStartId="111.[113,190,1924,1946]" captionTargetBox="[113,1464,245,1912]" captionTargetId="figure-71@111.[113,1474,236,1915]" captionTargetPageId="111" captionText="Figures 552563. Teruelius olgae, male paratype. Figures 552560. Pedipalp chela, dorsal (552), external (553) and ventrointernal (554) views; pedipalp patella, dorsal (555), external (556) and ventral (557) views; pedipalp femur and trochanter, internal (558) and dorsal (559) views; pedipalp chela, movable finger dentate margin (560). Figure 561. Carapace and tergites III. Figure 562. Sternopectinal region. Figure 563. Telson lateral view." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143827" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143827/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">560</figureCitation>
), movable finger typically with 4 external subdistal granules; femur trichobothrium
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straddling dorsointernal carina, or located on dorsal surface (
<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA235CD425FB2AF932" box="[1037,1176,1372,1396]" captionStart="Figures 920" captionStartId="11.[116,190,1913,1935]" captionTargetBox="[129,1461,231,1903]" captionTargetId="figure-144@11.[129,1461,231,1903]" captionTargetPageId="11" captionText="Figures 920. Position of femur trichobothrium d 2in Grosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Dorsal surfaces of proximal pedipalp femur of adult females (♀, left panels) and adult males (♂, right panels), underUV fluorescence to highlightgranulation,carinae and trichobothrial areolae.Whitearrows indicate positions of trichobothrium d in each image. G. madagascariensis (9, 10; 2 samples from Anjiro (9) and Andasibe (10) show consistency of d 2 2 position),G. hirtus(11), G. voahangyae (12), T. ankarafantsika (13, 15; 2 samples fromAmpijoroa show consistency ofd 2position),T. ankarana (14), T. flavopiceus (16), T. grandidieri (17), T. limbatus (18), T. mahafaliensis (19), and T. olgae (20). Scale bars: 1 mm (920♀) or 500 μm (20 ♂)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143618" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143618/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">Figs. 1320</figureCitation>
); chela manus with petite trichobothrium
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<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA2362D4E5FB09F9F2" box="[1075,1211,1436,1460]" captionStart="Figures 2127" captionStartId="14.[113,188,1859,1881]" captionTargetBox="[114,1474,227,1840]" captionTargetId="figure-206@14.[113,1474,222,1851]" captionTargetPageId="14" captionText="Figures 2127. Positions of trichobothria Eb, Eb and petite Eb on manus of pedipalp chela in Grosphus, Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. 1 2 3 n. Figures 2124. External views of pedipalp chela, shown under UV fluorescence to highlight trichobothrial areolae. G. hirtus ♂ (21), G. madagascariensis ♀ (22), T. limbatus ♂ (23), T. ankarafantsika ♀ (24). Positions of Eb 1, Eb 2 and Eb 3 and lines joining them shown as white overlays. Scale bars: 2 mm. Figures 2526. Horizontal histograms comparing ratios, R = d(Eb, Eb)/ d(Eb, Eb), of Eb -Eb distance, to Eb - 123 2 3 1 2 2 3 1 Eb distance, in males (25), and females (26) of Grosphus, Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Error bars indicate ranges (minimum, maximum), 2 histogram bars mid-range values. Figure 27. Scatter plot of male vs. female ratios R. Ratio is larger in males if points fall above the diagonal 123 (gray) line, larger in females if they fall below it." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143620" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143620/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">Figs. 2324</figureCitation>
); manus trichobothrium
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along chela axis or slightly displaced internally; higher pectinal tooth counts:
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<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA24F1D485FB96FA52" box="[928,1060,1532,1556]" captionStart-0="Figures 2829" captionStart-1="Figures 3035" captionStartId-0="18.[113,190,1953,1975]" captionStartId-1="19.[113,190,1773,1795]" captionTargetBox-1="[118,1455,257,1710]" captionTargetId-0="figure-131@18.[113,1474,255,1915]" captionTargetId-1="figure-204@19.[113,1474,251,1714]" captionTargetPageId-0="18" captionTargetPageId-1="19" captionText-0="Figures 2829. Variation in pectinal tooth count (PTC) in Grosphus, Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Horizontal histograms comparing PTC in males (28), and females (29) of Grosphus, Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Error bars indicate ranges (minimum, maximum), bars mid-range values." captionText-1="Figures 3035. Variation in pectinal tooth count (PTC) in Grosphus, Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Figures 3031. Logarithmic scatter plots showing scaling of PTC vs. carapace length in males (30), and females (31) of Grosphus, Neogrosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Color lines are least squares linear regression fits of scaling trends for the different genera. Figures 3233. Logarithmic scatter plots showing scaling of PTC vs. carapace length in Figs. 3031 superposed upon overall scaling trends for a larger sample of male (32) and female (33) buthids including both α and β trichobothrial configurations (gray symbols; 1055♂, 1046♀). Dark lines: least squares linear regression fits of scaling trends for larger sample of buthids. Figures 3435. Logarithmic scatter plots showing scaling of PTC vs. carapace length in Figs. 3031 superposed upon overall scaling trends for a larger sample of male (34) and female (35) α-buthids restricted to α trichobothrial configurations (gray symbols; 445♂, 371♀). Dark lines: least squares linear regression fits of scaling trends for α-buthids. Numbers: slopes of regression lines (= allometric exponents). Purple symbols and lines: outgroup Pseudolychas." figureDoi-0="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143622" figureDoi-1="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143626" httpUri-0="https://zenodo.org/record/7143622/files/figure.png" httpUri-1="https://zenodo.org/record/7143626/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">Figs. 2831</figureCitation>
); basal pectinal tooth of females wide, with elongate, tapering distal extension, distinctly longer than other teeth (
<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA2351D745FB39FA12" box="[1024,1163,1596,1620]" captionStart="Figures 4051" captionStartId="22.[113,188,1930,1952]" captionTargetBox="[113,1474,234,1920]" captionTargetId="figure-124@22.[113,1474,234,1922]" captionTargetPageId="22" captionText="Figures 4051. Female basal pectinal teeth in Grosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Ventral views of proximal left pectine of females shown under UV fluorescence to highlight cuticular surface texture, setation and absence of peg sensillae on basal tooth vs. their presence on other teeth. G. sp. nr hirtus (40), G. madagascariensis (41), G. hirtus (42), G. voahangyae (43), T. ankarafantsika (4445; 2 samples fromAmpijoroa show variation in tooth shape), T. ankarana (46), T. flavopiceus (47), T. grandidieri (48), T. limbatus (49), T. mahafaliensis (50), and T. olgae (51). Scale bars: 1 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143634" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143634/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">Figs. 4451</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA23CFD745FB4CFA12" box="[1182,1278,1596,1620]" captionStart="Figures 196210" captionStartId="65.[113,190,1950,1972]" captionTargetId="figure-77@65.[113,1474,234,1589]" captionTargetPageId="65" captionText="Figures 196210. Female basal pectinal teeth of representative Grosphus and Teruelius gen. n. G. hirtus (196198), G. madagascariensis (199), G. madagascariensis, paratype of G. mandena(200), T. ankarafantsika (201),T. ankarana (202), T. annulatus (203),T. bistriatus (204), T. flavopiceus (205), T. grandidieri (206), T. intertidalis (207), T. limbatus (208), T. mahafaliensis (209), T. feti (210)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143706" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143706/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">201210</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA2240D745FA89FA12" box="[1297,1339,1596,1620]" captionStart="Figures 409417" captionStartId="89.[113,190,1958,1980]" captionTargetBox="[113,1474,234,1814]" captionTargetId="figure-58@89.[113,1474,234,1838]" captionTargetPageId="89" captionText="Figures 409417. Teruelius ankarafantsika. Male paratype (409, 416417) and female holotype (410415). Figures 409411. Carapace and tergites IIII (409410) and sternopectinal region (411). Figures 412417. Left legs tibia, basitarsus and telotarsus, retrolateral views. Leg I (412), leg II (413), leg III (414, 416), leg IV (415, 417)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143778" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143778/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">411</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA221FD745FACBFA12" box="[1358,1401,1596,1620]" captionStart="Figures 500511" captionStartId="103.[113,190,1928,1950]" captionTargetBox="[113,1465,240,1881]" captionTargetId="figure-73@103.[113,1474,234,1881]" captionTargetPageId="103" captionText="Figures 500511. Teruelius intertidalis, female holotype. Figures 500508. Pedipalp chela, dorsal (500), external (501) and ventrointernal (502) views; pedipalp patella, dorsal (503), external (504) and ventral (505) views; pedipalp femur and trochanter, internal (506) and dorsal (507) views; pedipalp chela, movable finger dentate margin (508). Figure 509. Carapace and tergites IIII. Figure 510. Sternopectinal region. Figure 511. Telson lateral view." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143811" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143811/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">510</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA22DDD745FA0AFA12" box="[1420,1464,1596,1620]" captionStart="Figures 526537" captionStartId="107.[113,190,1928,1950]" captionTargetBox="[113,1458,234,1912]" captionTargetId="figure-80@107.[113,1468,234,1919]" captionTargetPageId="107" captionText="Figures 526537. Teruelius mahafaliensis, female (526, 529530, 535), male (527528, 531534) and male holotype of G. rossii (536537). Sternopectinal region (526527). Carapace and tergites III (528). Pedipalp chela, movable finger dentate margin (529). Pedipalp chela dorsal (530531) and external (532) views. Pedipalp patella dorsal (533) view. Pedipalp femur and trochanter dorsal (534) view. Metasoma V and telson lateral (535) view. Metasoma and telson dorsal (536) and ventral (537) views. Scale bar: 10 mm (536537)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143819" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143819/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">526</figureCitation>
); hemispermatophore capsule short, carinate, posterior lobe rounded, without lanceolate extension (
<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA2387D705FAEBFAD2" box="[1238,1369,1660,1684]" captionStart="Figures 7185" captionStartId="26.[113,190,1701,1723]" captionTargetBox="[149,1434,231,1678]" captionTargetId="figure-287@26.[146,1446,225,1690]" captionTargetPageId="26" captionText="Figures 7185. Hemispermatophores and capsule regions of Teruelius gen n. Multi-panel figures show: whole hemispermatophore; whole hemispermatophore and/or capsule with flagellum; capsule region in convex (or convex compressed), anterior and posterior views (panels in left to right sequence). Right hemispermatophores. Figure 71. T. ankarana, whole hemispermatophore. Scale bar: 4 mm. Figure 72. T. ankarana, capsule, left mirrored, Forêt dAnkavanana, FMNH. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 73. T. grandidieri, whole hemispermatophore (flagellum truncated). Scale bar: 4 mm. Figure 74. T. grandidieri, capsule, Antsakabe River, FMNH. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 75. T. flavopiceus, whole hemispermatophore. Scale bar: 2 mm. Figure 76. T. flavopiceus, capsule, Madagascar, GLPC, FKCP. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 77. T. annulatus, capsule, Tsimanampetsotsa National Park, GLPC, FKCP. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 78. T. ankarafantsika, capsule and flagellum. Scale bar: 400 μm. Figure 79. T. ankarafantsika, capsule, Forêt dAnkavanana, FMNH. Scale bar: 200 μm. Figure 80. T. ankarafantsika, capsule, Réserve Forestière de lAnkarafantsika, FMNH. Scale bar: 200 μm. Figure 81. T. olgae, capsule, Itampolo village, FMNH. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 82. T. limbatus, whole hemispermatophore (flagellum truncated). Scale bar: 2 mm. Figure 83. T. limbatus, capsule, Forêt dIanasana, FMNH. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 84. T. mahafaliensis, capsule views, Zombitse-Vohibasia National Park, GLPC, FKCP. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 85. T. intertidalis, capsule, Madagascar, GLPC, FKCP. Scale bar: 500 μm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143641" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143641/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">Figs. 7185</figureCitation>
); sternites with narrow, slit-like spiracles (
<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA23C6D7E5FA9EFAF2" box="[1175,1324,1692,1716]" captionStart="Figures 95110" captionStartId="18.[113,190,1408,1430]" captionTargetBox="[113,1475,255,1894]" captionTargetId="figure-131@18.[113,1474,255,1915]" captionTargetPageId="18" captionText="Figures 95110: Orthochirus mesopotamicus comb. n., from Iraq, Basra (ca. 30°48N 47°34E). Figures 95, 97, 100110. Male, carapace and tergites IIII (95), sternopectinal region and sternites (97). Pedipalp chela, dorsal (100), external (101), and ventrointernal (102) views. Pedipalp patella, dorsal (103), external (104), and ventral (105) views. Pedipalp femur and trochanter, internodorsal (106) and dorsoexternal (107) views. Pedipalp chela, movable finger dentate margin (108). Distal segments of right legs IIIIV, retrolateral views (109110). Figures 96, 9899. Female, carapace and tergites IIII (96), sternopectinal region and sternites (98), and pedipalp chela dorsoexternal (99). The trichobothrial pattern is indicated in Figures 101104, 106107 (white circles)." pageId="13" pageNumber="12">Figs. 99105</figureCitation>
); metasoma I with ventromedian carinae moderately to weakly crenulate or smooth to obsolete (
<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA2369D7A5FB6BFAB2" box="[1080,1241,1756,1780]" captionStart-0="Figures 122126" captionStart-1="Figures 127132" captionStartId-0="38.[113,190,1956,1978]" captionStartId-1="39.[113,190,1954,1976]" captionTargetBox-0="[180,1420,247,1929]" captionTargetBox-1="[132,1462,256,1937]" captionTargetId-0="figure-75@38.[126,1459,234,1942]" captionTargetId-1="figure-68@39.[113,1474,231,1947]" captionTargetPageId-0="38" captionTargetPageId-1="39" captionText-0="Figures 122126. Ventral aspect of metasoma and telson of adult males (♂) or females (♀) of representative Grosphus spp. and Teruelius limbatus under UV fluorescence to reveal carination and granulation. G. hirtus (122), G. madagascariensis (123 from Anjiro, 124 from Andasibe), G. voahangyae (125), and T. limbatus (126). Scale bars: 4 mm." captionText-1="Figures 127132. Ventral aspect of metasoma and telson of adult males (♂) or females (♀) of representative Teruelius gen. n under UV fluorescence to reveal carination and granulation. T. ankarafantsika (127), T. ankarana (128), T. flavopiceus (129), T. grandidieri (130), T. mahafaliensis (131), and T. olgae (132). Scale bars: 4 mm." figureDoi-0="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143671" figureDoi-1="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143675" httpUri-0="https://zenodo.org/record/7143671/files/figure.png" httpUri-1="https://zenodo.org/record/7143675/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">Figs. 126132</figureCitation>
); telson with oval or bulbous vesicle, without subaculear tubercle in adults (
<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA22DFD785FC26FB72" captionStart="Figures 181195" captionStartId="64.[113,190,1953,1975]" captionTargetId="figure-71@64.[113,1474,242,1670]" captionTargetPageId="64" captionText="Figures 181195. Telson of representativeGrosphus andTeruelius gen. n. G. hirtus (181182), G. madagascariensis (183184), G. voahangyae (185), T. ankarafantsika (186187), T. ankarana (188), T. flavopiceus (189), T. grandidieri (190191), T. limbatus (192), T. mahafaliensis (193) and T. olgae (194195). UV fluorescence, ♂ male, ♀ female. Scale bars: 2 mm (181187, 192195), 4 mm (188191)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143700" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143700/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">Figs. 186195</figureCitation>
); legs with ventral surface of telotarsus densely setose or scopulate, with broad, brush-like strips of&gt; 20 long filiform macrosetae (
<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA2490D625FBD4FB32" box="[961,1126,1884,1908]" captionStart="Figures 133144" captionStartId="40.[113,190,1293,1315]" captionTargetBox="[118,1474,249,1273]" captionTargetId="figure-523@40.[113,1474,227,1273]" captionTargetPageId="40" captionText="Figures 133144. Ventral setation of telotarsus III in Grosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Ventral surfaces of right telotarsus III of adult males (♂) or females (♀), shown under UV fluorescence to highlight setation. Macrosetae appear dark with strongly fluorescent cuticular sockets at their base. Putative chemosensory microsetae appear bright. G. hirtus (= G. h. garciai) (133), G. hirtus (134), G. madagascariensis (135, from Anjiro, 136 from Andasibe), G. voahangyae (137), T. ankarafantsika (138), T. limbatus (139), T. mahafaliensis (140), T. ankarana (141), T. grandidieri (142), T. flavopiceus (143), and T. olgae (144). Scale bars: 500 μm (133140, 144) and 1 mm (141143)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143677" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143677/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">Figs. 138144</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA2328D625FB68FB32" box="[1145,1242,1884,1908]" captionStart="Figures 211226" captionStartId="66.[113,190,1920,1942]" captionTargetBox="[117,1466,234,1743]" captionTargetId="figure-88@66.[113,1474,234,1743]" captionTargetPageId="66" captionText="Figures 211226. Ventral tarsal setation of legs III or IV in Grosphus and Teruelius gen. n. G. goudoti (211), G. hirtus (212), G. hirtus (G. garciai) (213), G. madagascariensis (214), G. madagascariensis (G. mandena) (215), Teruelius ankarana (216), T. flavopiceus (217), T. annulatus (218), T. ankarafantsika (219220), T. bistriatus (221), T. intertidalis (222), T. grandidieri (223), T. mahafaliensis (224), T. limbatus (225), T. feti (226)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143708" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143708/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">216226</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA23BCD625FAFFFB32" box="[1261,1357,1884,1908]" captionStart="Figures 409417" captionStartId="89.[113,190,1958,1980]" captionTargetBox="[113,1474,234,1814]" captionTargetId="figure-58@89.[113,1474,234,1838]" captionTargetPageId="89" captionText="Figures 409417. Teruelius ankarafantsika. Male paratype (409, 416417) and female holotype (410415). Figures 409411. Carapace and tergites IIII (409410) and sternopectinal region (411). Figures 412417. Left legs tibia, basitarsus and telotarsus, retrolateral views. Leg I (412), leg II (413), leg III (414, 416), leg IV (415, 417)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143778" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143778/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">409417</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA2231D625FA72FB32" box="[1376,1472,1884,1908]" captionStart="Figures 477490" captionStartId="100.[113,190,1928,1950]" captionTargetBox="[110,1468,256,1846]" captionTargetId="figure-92@100.[110,1471,244,1880]" captionTargetPageId="100" captionText="Figures 477490. Teruelius flavopiceus, male. Figures 477486. Pedipalp chela, dorsal (477), external (478) and ventrointernal (479) views; pedipalp patella, dorsal (480), external (481) and ventral (482) views; pedipalp femur and trochanter, internal (483) and dorsal (484) views; pedipalp chela, movable (485) and fixed (486) finger dentate margin. The trichobothrial pattern is indicated by white circles in Figures 477a484a. Figures 487490. Right legs tibia, basitarsus and telotarsus, retrolateral views. Leg IV (487), leg III (488), leg. II (489), leg I (490)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143803" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143803/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">487490</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA2463D605FC20FBD2" box="[818,914,1916,1940]" captionStart="Figures 512515" captionStartId="104.[117,194,1981,2003]" captionTargetBox="[146,1452,271,1937]" captionTargetId="figure-34@104.[135,1459,234,1949]" captionTargetPageId="104" captionText="Figures 512515. Teruelius intertidalis, female holotype. Left legs tibia, basitarsus and telotarsus, retrolateral views. Leg I (512), leg II (513), leg III (514), leg IV (515)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143813" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143813/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">512515</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA24CFD605FC4CFBD2" box="[926,1022,1916,1940]" captionStart="Figures 538541" captionStartId="108.[113,190,1981,2003]" captionTargetBox="[129,1451,241,1964]" captionTargetId="figure-37@108.[123,1459,234,1977]" captionTargetPageId="108" captionText="Figures 538541. Teruelius mahafaliensis, male holotype of G. rossii. Left legs tibia, basitarsus and telotarsus, retrolateral views. Leg I (538), leg II (539), leg. III (540), leg IV (541)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143821" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143821/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">538541</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA2358D605FBDEFBD2" box="[1033,1132,1916,1940]" captionStart="Figures 576579" captionStartId="113.[113,190,1981,2003]" captionTargetBox="[122,1462,264,1906]" captionTargetId="figure-33@113.[110,1474,245,1928]" captionTargetPageId="113" captionText="Figures 576579. Teruelius olgae, male paratype. Right legs tibia, basitarsus and telotarsus, retrolateral and ventral views. Leg I (576), leg II (577), leg III (578), leg IV (579)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143831" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143831/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">576579</figureCitation>
); telotarsus with dorsal terminal process of normal size; cuticle with strong UV fluorescence (
<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBCFFAA246BD6C5FC6AFB92" box="[826,984,1980,2004]" captionStart="Figures 145157" captionStartId="41.[113,190,1502,1524]" captionTargetBox="[113,1474,234,1490]" captionTargetId="figure-392@41.[113,1474,234,1490]" captionTargetPageId="41" captionText="Figures 145157. Comparative intensity of UV fluorescence in Grosphus and Teruelius gen. n. Photographic comparison of fluorescence emission intensities of representative species of each genus, including adult males (♂) or females (♀). G. madagascariensis (145 from Anjiro, 148 from Andasibe), G. hirtus (146), G. voahangyae (147), G. hirtus (= G. h. garciai) (149), T. ankarafantsika (150), T. grandidieri (151), T. olgae (152), T. flavopiceus (153), T. ankarana (154155), T. mahafaliensis (156), and T. limbatus (157). Images acquired under identical intensities of UV excitation (395 nm LED source, 0.35 A current) and camera exposure (Canon EOS 7D Mark II, 100 mm f/13, 0.5 s, ISO 320), with 475 nm longpass filter to block excitation wavelengths. Scale bars: 10 mm (145150, 152153, 156157), 20 mm (151, 154155)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143681" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143681/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="12">Figs. 150157</figureCitation>
).
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA92720D63AFEB3FB1E" bold="true" box="[113,257,1859,1881]" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">Figures 2127</emphasis>
. Positions of trichobothria
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and petite
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on manus of pedipalp chela in
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA92370D63AFBCEFB1E" box="[1057,1148,1859,1880]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">Grosphus</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA923DAD63AFAB4FB1E" box="[1163,1286,1859,1880]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">Neogrosphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA92268D63AFA22FB1E" box="[1337,1424,1859,1880]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">Teruelius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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. 1 2 3
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA92720D619FEAFFB33" bold="true" box="[113,285,1888,1910]" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">n. Figures 2124</emphasis>
. External views of pedipalp chela, shown under UV fluorescence to highlight trichobothrial areolae.
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA923AAD619FABEFB33" box="[1275,1292,1888,1909]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">G</emphasis>
.
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</taxonomicName>
♂ (21),
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA922FAD619FA0EFB33" box="[1451,1468,1888,1909]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">G</emphasis>
.
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</taxonomicName>
♀ (22),
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA92621D604FECFFBD4" box="[368,381,1917,1938]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA926DAD604FE6EFBD4" box="[395,476,1917,1938]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">limbatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
♂ (23),
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA92563D604FD8DFBD4" box="[562,575,1917,1938]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA9251CD604FD68FBD4" box="[589,730,1917,1938]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">ankarafantsika</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
♀ (24). Positions of
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,
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and
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and lines joining them shown as white overlays. Scale bars: 2 mm.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA9262DD6E0FDBBFBE8" bold="true" box="[380,521,1945,1967]" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">Figures 2526</emphasis>
. Horizontal histograms comparing ratios,
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA924C7D6E3FC17FBE9" box="[918,933,1946,1967]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">R</emphasis>
= d(
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,
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)/ d(
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA9230DD6E3FBC4FBE9" box="[1116,1142,1946,1967]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">Eb</emphasis>
,
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), of
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distance, to
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA922C8D6E3FA01FBE9" box="[1433,1459,1946,1967]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">Eb</emphasis>
-
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distance, in males (25), and females (26) of
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA92569D6CFFD21FB8D" box="[568,659,1974,1995]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">Grosphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA925CFD6CFFCABFB8D" box="[670,793,1974,1995]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">Neogrosphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA92419D6CFFC2DFB8D" box="[840,927,1974,1995]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">Teruelius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA924F5D6CEFC75FB8A" bold="true" box="[932,967,1975,1996]" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">gen</emphasis>
.
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.
</taxonomicNameLabel>
Error bars indicate ranges (minimum, maximum), 2 histogram bars mid-range values.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA926E2D6AAFDA6FBAE" bold="true" box="[435,532,2003,2025]" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">Figure 27</emphasis>
. Scatter plot of male vs. female ratios
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBFFFA924D2D6ADFC20FBAF" box="[899,914,2004,2025]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">R</emphasis>
. Ratio is larger in males if points fall above the diagonal 123 (gray) line, larger in females if they fall below it.
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<subSubSection id="C3086514FFBEFFA82722D192FDB7F864" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFBEFFA82722D192FEF5FD45" blockId="15.[115,759,235,963]" box="[115,327,235,259]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">SUBORDINATE TAXA.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82722D072FD8FFD65" authority="(Lourenco, 2003)" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco" baseAuthorityYear="2003" box="[115,573,267,291]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ankarafantsika" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D072FECEFD65" box="[115,380,267,291]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius ankarafantsika</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA826DBD072FD84FD65" author="LOURENCO, W. R." box="[394,566,267,291]" editor="GOODMAN, S. &amp; BENSTEAD, J." journalOrPublisher="The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="575 - 579" refId="ref38188" refString="LOURENCO, W. R. 2003 a. Scorpiones, scorpions. Pp. 575 - 579 in GOODMAN, S., BENSTEAD, J. (Eds.). The Natural History of Madagascar. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois." title="Scorpiones, scorpions." type="book chapter" volumeTitle="The Natural History of Madagascar" year="2003">Lourenço, 2003</bibRefCitation>
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.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA825C1D072FD2DFD65" bold="true" box="[656,671,267,291]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82722D052FD3DFD05" authority="(Lourenco &amp; Goodman, 2003)" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco &amp; Goodman" baseAuthorityYear="2003" box="[115,655,299,323]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ankarana" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D052FEF0FD05" box="[115,322,299,323]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius ankarana</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA82601D052FD3AFD05" author="LOURENCO, W. R. &amp; S. M. GOODMAN" box="[336,648,299,323]" journalOrPublisher="Revista Iberica de Aracnologia" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="19 - 28" part="7" refId="ref39272" refString="LOURENCO, W. R. &amp; S. M. GOODMAN. 2003 a. Description of a new species of Grosphus Simon (Scorpiones, Buthidae) from the Ankarana Massif, Madagascar. Revista Iberica de Aracnologia, 7: 19 - 28." title="Description of a new species of Grosphus Simon (Scorpiones, Buthidae) from the Ankarana Massif, Madagascar" type="journal article" year="2003">Lourenço &amp; Goodman, 2003</bibRefCitation>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA825B0D052FD42FD05" bold="true" box="[737,752,299,323]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82722D032FE67FD25" authority="(Fage, 1929)" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Fage" baseAuthorityYear="1929" box="[115,469,331,355]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="annulatus" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D032FEF7FD25" box="[115,325,331,355]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius annulatus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA82605D032FE7FFD25" author="FAGE, L." box="[340,461,331,355]" journalOrPublisher="Societe d'Editions Geographiques Maritimes et Coloniales, Paris" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="637 - 693" refId="ref33536" refString="FAGE, L. 1929. Les scorpions de Madagascar, leur affinites, leur distribution geographique. Pp. 637 - 693 in: Faune des Colonies Francaises. Societe d'Editions Geographiques Maritimes et Coloniales, Paris." title="Les scorpions de Madagascar, leur affinites, leur distribution geographique" type="book chapter" volumeTitle="Faune des Colonies Francaises" year="1929">Fage, 1929</bibRefCitation>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8268AD032FDABFD25" bold="true" box="[475,537,331,355]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">comb</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82576D032FD84FD25" bold="true" box="[551,566,331,355]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
.
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</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFBEFFA82722D012FF67FDE4" blockId="15.[115,759,235,963]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82722D012FD7DFDC5" authority="(Lourenco, Wilme &amp; Waeber, 2018)" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco, Wilme &amp; Waeber" baseAuthorityYear="2018" box="[115,719,363,387]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bemaraha" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D012FEFAFDC5" box="[115,328,363,387]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius bemaraha</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA82607D012FD7AFDC5" author="LOURENCO, W. R. &amp; L. WILME &amp; P. O. WAEBER" box="[342,712,363,387]" journalOrPublisher="Comptes Rendus Biologies" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="131 - 143" part="341" refId="ref40549" refString="LOURENCO, W. R., L. WILME &amp; P. O. WAEBER. 2018 a. The genus Opisthacanthus Peters, 1861 (Scorpiones: Hormuridae), a remarkable Gondwanian group of scorpions. Comptes Rendus Biologies, 341: 131 - 143." title="The genus Opisthacanthus Peters, 1861 (Scorpiones: Hormuridae), a remarkable Gondwanian group of scorpions" type="journal article" year="2018">Lourenço, Wilmé &amp; Waeber, 2018</bibRefCitation>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D0F2FF03FDE5" bold="true" box="[115,177,395,419]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">comb</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA827EED0F2FF7CFDE5" bold="true" box="[191,206,395,419]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
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</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFBEFFA82722D0D2FDE1FD84" blockId="15.[115,759,235,963]" box="[115,595,427,451]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82722D0D2FE58FD85" authority="(Lourenco, 2012)" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco" baseAuthorityYear="2012" box="[115,490,427,451]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bicolor" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D0D2FE9BFD85" box="[115,297,427,451]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius bicolor</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA82666D0D2FE51FD85" author="LOURENCO, W. R." box="[311,483,427,451]" journalOrPublisher="Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="187 - 192" part="50" refId="ref38648" refString="LOURENCO, W. R. 2012 a. Further taxonomic considerations on the genus Buthoscorpio W erner, 1936 (Scorpiones, Buthidae), with description of a new species from India. Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 50: 187 - 192." title="Further taxonomic considerations on the genus Buthoscorpio W erner, 1936 (Scorpiones, Buthidae), with description of a new species from India" type="journal article" year="2012">Lourenço, 2012</bibRefCitation>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA826A0D0D2FD9DFD85" bold="true" box="[497,559,427,451]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">comb</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8256CD0D2FDFEFD85" bold="true" box="[573,588,427,451]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
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</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFBEFFA82722D0B2FDDFFDA4" blockId="15.[115,759,235,963]" box="[115,621,459,483]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82722D0B2FDB4FDA5" authority="(Kraepelin, 1900)" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Kraepelin" baseAuthorityYear="1900" box="[115,518,459,483]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bistriatus" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D0B2FEF3FDA5" box="[115,321,459,483]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius bistriatus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA8261ED0B2FE4CFDA5" author="KRAEPELIN, K." box="[335,510,459,483]" journalOrPublisher="Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften. Herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein in Hamburg" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="1 - 17" part="16" refId="ref36651" refString="KRAEPELIN, K. 1900. Ueber einige neue Gliederspinnen. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften. Herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein in Hamburg, 16, 1 (4): 1 - 17." title="Ueber einige neue Gliederspinnen" type="journal article" year="1900">Kraepelin, 1900</bibRefCitation>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8255DD0B2FDF8FDA5" bold="true" box="[524,586,459,483]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">comb</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82506D0B2FDD4FDA5" bold="true" box="[599,614,459,483]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
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</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFBEFFA82722D092FD9AFE64" blockId="15.[115,759,235,963]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82722D092FD36FE45" authority="(Lourenco &amp; Wilme, 2016)" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco &amp; Wilme" baseAuthorityYear="2016" box="[115,644,491,515]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="eliseanneae" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D092FEE8FE45" box="[115,346,491,515]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius eliseanneae</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA82639D092FDCFFE45" author="LOURENCO, W. R. &amp; L. WILME" box="[360,637,491,515]" journalOrPublisher="Madagascar Conservation &amp; Development" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="1 - 14" part="11" refId="ref40275" refString="LOURENCO, W. R. &amp; L. WILME. 2016. Three new species of Grosphus Simon 1880, (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Madagascar; possible vicariant cases within the Grosphus bistriatus group of species. Madagascar Conservation &amp; Development, 11 (2): 1 - 14." title="Three new species of Grosphus Simon 1880, (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Madagascar; possible vicariant cases within the Grosphus bistriatus group of species" type="journal article" year="2016">Lourenço &amp; Wilmé, 2016</bibRefCitation>
)
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA825DAD092FD7BFE45" bold="true" box="[651,713,491,515]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">comb</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82586D092FD54FE45" bold="true" box="[727,742,491,515]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
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</taxonomicNameLabel>
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82722D372FE72FE65" authority="(Lourenco, 1996)" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco" baseAuthorityYear="1996" box="[115,448,523,547]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="feti" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D372FF4CFE65" box="[115,254,523,547]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius feti</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA8265DD372FE0AFE65" author="LOURENCO, W. R." box="[268,440,523,547]" journalOrPublisher="Biogeographie de Madagascar. ORSTOM, Paris" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="441 - 455" refId="ref37587" refString="LOURENCO, W. R. 1996 a. Origins and affinities of the scorpion fauna of Madagascar. Pp. 441 - 455 in: Lourenco, W. R. (Ed.). Biogeographie de Madagascar. ORSTOM, Paris." title="Origins and affinities of the scorpion fauna of Madagascar" type="book chapter" volumeTitle="Lourenco, W. R" year="1996">Lourenço, 1996</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A25557F6FFBEFFA82697D372FD9AFE64" box="[454,552,523,547]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" rank="species">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82697D372FDB6FE65" bold="true" box="[454,516,523,547]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">comb</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82543D372FD93FE65" bold="true" box="[530,545,523,547]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
.
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</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFBEFFA82722D352FD32FE04" blockId="15.[115,759,235,963]" box="[115,640,555,579]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82722D352FDABFE05" authority="(Kraepelin, 1900)" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Kraepelin" baseAuthorityYear="1900" box="[115,537,555,579]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="flavopiceus" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D352FEE6FE05" box="[115,340,555,579]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius flavopiceus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA82633D352FDA3FE05" author="KRAEPELIN, K." box="[354,529,555,579]" journalOrPublisher="Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften. Herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein in Hamburg" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="1 - 17" part="16" refId="ref36651" refString="KRAEPELIN, K. 1900. Ueber einige neue Gliederspinnen. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften. Herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein in Hamburg, 16, 1 (4): 1 - 17." title="Ueber einige neue Gliederspinnen" type="journal article" year="1900">Kraepelin, 1900</bibRefCitation>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8254ED352FDEFFE05" bold="true" box="[543,605,555,579]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">comb</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8253AD352FDC8FE05" bold="true" box="[619,634,555,579]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFBEFFA82722D332FF67FEC4" blockId="15.[115,759,235,963]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82722D332FD7DFE25" authority="(Lourenco, Wilme &amp; Waeber, 2016)" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco, Wilme &amp; Waeber" baseAuthorityYear="2016" box="[115,719,587,611]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ganzhorni" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D332FEFAFE25" box="[115,328,587,611]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius ganzhorni</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA82607D332FD7AFE25" author="LOURENCO, W. R. &amp; P. O. WAEBER &amp; L. WILME" box="[342,712,587,611]" journalOrPublisher="Comptes Rendus Biologies" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="427 - 436" part="339" refId="ref40105" refString="LOURENCO, W. R., P. O. WAEBER &amp; L. WILME. 2016 a. The geographical pattern of distribution of the genus Tityobuthus Pocock, 1890, a typical Ananterinae element endemic to Madagascar (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Comptes Rendus Biologies, 339: 427 - 436." title="The geographical pattern of distribution of the genus Tityobuthus Pocock, 1890, a typical Ananterinae element endemic to Madagascar (Scorpiones: Buthidae)" type="journal article" year="2016">Lourenço, Wilmé &amp; Waeber, 2016</bibRefCitation>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D312FF03FEC5" bold="true" box="[115,177,619,643]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">comb</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA827EED312FF7CFEC5" bold="true" box="[191,206,619,643]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
.
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</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFBEFFA82722D3F2FD30FEE4" blockId="15.[115,759,235,963]" box="[115,642,651,675]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82722D3F2FDA8FEE5" authority="(Kraepelin, 1900)" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Kraepelin" baseAuthorityYear="1900" box="[115,538,651,675]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="grandidieri" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D3F2FEE7FEE5" box="[115,341,651,675]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius grandidieri</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA82635D3F2FDA1FEE5" author="KRAEPELIN, K." box="[356,531,651,675]" journalOrPublisher="Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften. Herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein in Hamburg" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="1 - 17" part="16" refId="ref36651" refString="KRAEPELIN, K. 1900. Ueber einige neue Gliederspinnen. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften. Herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein in Hamburg, 16, 1 (4): 1 - 17." title="Ueber einige neue Gliederspinnen" type="journal article" year="1900">Kraepelin, 1900</bibRefCitation>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82570D3F2FDEDFEE5" bold="true" box="[545,607,651,675]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">comb</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8253DD3F2FDC9FEE5" bold="true" box="[620,635,651,675]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
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</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFBEFFA82722D3D2FDC9FE84" blockId="15.[115,759,235,963]" box="[115,635,683,707]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82722D3D2FDA1FE85" authority="(Lourenco, 1999)" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco" baseAuthorityYear="1999" box="[115,531,683,707]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="intertidalis" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D3D2FEE3FE85" box="[115,337,683,707]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius intertidalis</emphasis>
(
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.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82534D3D2FDC6FE85" bold="true" box="[613,628,683,707]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D3B2FE8AFEA5" box="[115,312,715,739]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius limbatus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA82617D3B2FE68FEA5" author="POCOCK, R. I." box="[326,474,715,739]" journalOrPublisher="Annals and Magazine of Natural History" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="334 - 351" part="3" refId="ref41689" refString="POCOCK, R. I. 1889 a. Notes on some Buthidae, new and old. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 3: 334 - 351." title="Notes on some Buthidae, new and old" type="journal article" year="1889">Pocock, 1889</bibRefCitation>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA826B9D3B2FD94FEA5" bold="true" box="[488,550,715,739]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">comb</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82565D3B2FDF1FEA5" bold="true" box="[564,579,715,739]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
.
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</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82722D392FDBEFF45" authority="(Lourenco, 2014)" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco" baseAuthorityYear="2014" box="[115,524,747,771]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magalieae" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D392FEF9FF45" box="[115,331,747,771]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius magalieae</emphasis>
(
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)
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82542D392FDE3FF45" bold="true" box="[531,593,747,771]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">comb</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8250ED392FDDCFF45" bold="true" box="[607,622,747,771]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
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(=
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA827C3D272FF13FF64" box="[146,161,779,802]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA827FFD272FEF0FF65" box="[174,322,779,803]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">mahafaliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
?)
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D252FEC2FF05" box="[115,368,811,835]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius mahafaliensis</emphasis>
(
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)
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82619D232FE34FF25" bold="true" box="[328,390,843,867]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">comb</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA826C2D232FE10FF25" bold="true" box="[403,418,843,867]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
.
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</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82722D212FE6BFFC5" authority="(Lourenco, 2004)" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco" baseAuthorityYear="2004" box="[115,473,875,899]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="olgae" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D212FEA5FFC5" box="[115,279,875,899]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius olgae</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA82674D212FE60FFC5" author="LOURENCO, W. R." bookContentInfo="105 pp." box="[293,466,875,899]" editor="Raselimanana A. P. &amp; Goodman S. M." journalOrPublisher="Recherches pour le developpement, Serie Sciences Biologiques" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="25 - 35" part="21" refId="ref38323" refString="LOURENCO, W. R. 2004 a. Scorpions du sud-ouest de Madagascar et en particulier de la foret des Mikea. Pp. 25 - 35, In: Raselimanana A. P. &amp; Goodman S. M. (eds), Inventaire floristique et faunistique de la foret de Mikea: Paysage ecologique et diversite biologique d'une preoccupation majeure pour la conservation, Recherches pour le developpement, Serie Sciences Biologiques, 21: 105 pp." title="Scorpions du sud-ouest de Madagascar et en particulier de la foret des Mikea" type="book chapter" volumeTitle="Inventaire floristique et faunistique de la foret de Mikea: Paysage ecologique et diversite biologique d'une preoccupation majeure pour la conservation" year="2004">Lourenço, 2004</bibRefCitation>
)
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8268ED212FDAFFFC5" bold="true" box="[479,541,875,899]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">comb</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8257AD212FD88FFC5" bold="true" box="[555,570,875,899]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
.
</taxonomicNameLabel>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFBEFFA82722D2F2FD77FF84" blockId="15.[115,759,235,963]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82722D2F2FDD7FFE5" authority="(Lourenco &amp; Wilme, 2016)" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco &amp; Wilme" baseAuthorityYear="2016" box="[115,613,907,931]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sabineae" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D2F2FE89FFE5" box="[115,315,907,931]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius sabineae</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA82618D2F2FDECFFE5" author="LOURENCO, W. R. &amp; L. WILME" box="[329,606,907,931]" journalOrPublisher="Madagascar Conservation &amp; Development" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="1 - 14" part="11" refId="ref40275" refString="LOURENCO, W. R. &amp; L. WILME. 2016. Three new species of Grosphus Simon 1880, (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Madagascar; possible vicariant cases within the Grosphus bistriatus group of species. Madagascar Conservation &amp; Development, 11 (2): 1 - 14." title="Three new species of Grosphus Simon 1880, (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Madagascar; possible vicariant cases within the Grosphus bistriatus group of species" type="journal article" year="2016">Lourenço &amp; Wilmé, 2016</bibRefCitation>
)
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8253DD2F2FD18FFE5" bold="true" box="[620,682,907,931]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">comb</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA825E9D2F2FD75FFE5" bold="true" box="[696,711,907,931]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
.
</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D2D2FE80FF85" box="[115,306,939,963]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius waeberi</emphasis>
(
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)
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82532D2D2FD13FF85" bold="true" box="[611,673,939,963]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">comb</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA825FED2D2FD0CFF85" bold="true" box="[687,702,939,963]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
.
</taxonomicNameLabel>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFBEFFA82722D292FDB7F864" blockId="15.[115,773,1003,1059]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">
See
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for diagnostic characters used to place the above species under
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82600D572FE01F865" box="[337,435,1035,1059]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA826EBD572FE50F865" bold="true" box="[442,482,1035,1059]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">gen</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA826BED572FE4CF865" bold="true" box="[495,510,1035,1059]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
.
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<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFBEFFA82722D535FE16FBE0" blockId="15.[115,774,1099,2022]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">
REMARKS. Recognition of
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA826F9D537FDB8F820" box="[424,522,1102,1126]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82547D537FD8CF820" bold="true" box="[534,574,1102,1126]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">gen</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82500D537FDD2F820" bold="true" box="[593,608,1102,1126]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
.
</taxonomicNameLabel>
as a separate genus, distinct from
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82605D517FE09F8C0" box="[340,443,1134,1158]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Grosphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, necessitates revision of some previous concepts about taxonomy and biogeography of
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D5D7FF68F880" box="[115,218,1198,1222]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Grosphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA827B9D5D7FE64F880" author="LOURENCO, W. R. &amp; L. WILME L &amp; V. SOARIMALALA &amp; P. O. WAEBER" box="[232,470,1198,1222]" journalOrPublisher="Revista Iberica de Arachnologia" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="61 - 69" part="30" refId="ref40436" refString="LOURENCO, W. R., L. WILME L, V. SOARIMALALA &amp; P. O. WAEBER. 2017. Species of Grosphus Simon, 1880 associated to Grosphus simoni Lourenco, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona, 2004 with description of two new species (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Revista Iberica de Arachnologia, 30: 61 - 69." title="Species of Grosphus Simon, 1880 associated to Grosphus simoni Lourenco, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona, 2004 with description of two new species (Scorpiones: Buthidae)" type="journal article" year="2017">Lourenço et al. (2017)</bibRefCitation>
associated
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82503D5D7FDD7F883" box="[594,613,1198,1221]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">G</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8252DD5D6FD71F880" box="[636,707,1199,1222]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">simoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(=
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA825BAD5D7FD4CF883" box="[747,766,1198,1221]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D5B7FE86F8A0" box="[115,308,1230,1254]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">madagascariensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) with
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8262ED5B7FE20F8A3" box="[383,402,1230,1253]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA826F3D5B7FD89F8A0" box="[418,571,1230,1254]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">rakotoariveloi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82522D5B7FD34F8A3" box="[627,646,1230,1253]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">G</emphasis>
.
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA825CED5B7FD47F8A0" authorityName="Lourenco, Wilme, Soarimalala &amp; Waeber, Previous" authorityYear="2017" box="[671,757,1230,1254]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="halleuxi">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA825CED5B7FD47F8A0" box="[671,757,1230,1254]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">halleuxi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and subsequently
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elaborated on a
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA8272DD477FE82F960" authorityName="Lourenco, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona" authorityYear="2004" box="[124,304,1294,1318]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simoni">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8272DD477FE82F960" box="[124,304,1294,1318]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Grosphus simoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group, treating it as a monophyletic unit of closely related “sister” species including the aforementioned three, plus
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA827A4D437FEBAF923" box="[245,264,1358,1381]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8264AD437FEECF920" box="[283,350,1358,1382]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">ambre</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82623D437FE37F923" box="[370,389,1358,1381]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA826C9D437FDB6F920" box="[408,516,1358,1382]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">bemaraha</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82515D437FDE5F923" box="[580,599,1358,1381]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8253BD437FD4CF920" box="[618,766,1358,1382]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">mahafaliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. A group diagnosis was not provided but, for
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8253FD417FD33F9C3" box="[622,641,1390,1413]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA825C3D417FD4CF9C0" box="[658,766,1390,1414]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">bemaraha</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, mention was made of “a number of features such as spiniform granules on the dorsal carinae of metasomal segments II-IV and on internal carinae of pedipalp femur and patella”. We place
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA827E7D497FEF5FA40" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco, Wilme &amp; Waeber" baseAuthorityYear="2018" box="[182,327,1518,1542]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bemaraha">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA827E7D497FF7BFA43" box="[182,201,1518,1541]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8278AD497FEF5FA40" box="[219,327,1518,1542]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">bemaraha</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
under
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA826C9D497FE48FA40" box="[408,506,1518,1542]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82554D497FDF5FA40" bold="true" box="[517,583,1518,1542]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">gen n</emphasis>
., on the basis of narrow spiracles, dense tarsal setation and high pectinal tooth count (
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), and consider spiniform granules shared with
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D737FF34FA23" box="[115,134,1614,1637]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA827C6D736FF6CFA20" box="[151,222,1615,1638]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">simoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to be a homoplasy.
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82695D737FE65FA23" box="[452,471,1614,1637]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA826B9D737FDE6FA20" box="[488,596,1614,1638]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">bemaraha</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was claimed to be closer to
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82652D717FE70FAC0" authorityName="Lourenco, Wilme, Soarimalala &amp; Waeber" authorityYear="2017" box="[259,450,1646,1670]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rakotoariveloi">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82652D717FEA4FAC3" box="[259,278,1646,1669]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82678D717FE70FAC0" box="[297,450,1646,1670]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">rakotoariveloi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but these species belong to different genera.
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, fig.1) included
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA825BAD7F7FD4CFAE3" box="[747,766,1678,1701]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82722D7D7FEB5FA80" box="[115,263,1710,1734]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">mahafaliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82607D7D6FE2FFA80" box="[342,413,1711,1734]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">simoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group, perhaps due to similarities to
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA827DED7B7FF10FAA3" box="[143,162,1742,1765]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA827FED7B7FEA9FAA0" box="[175,283,1742,1766]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">bemaraha</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, noting in particular a high number of pectine teeth (but it lacks spiniform granules on metasomal carinae). In contrast, we find that
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82629D676FD9BFB60" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona" baseAuthorityYear="2004" box="[376,553,1806,1830]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mahafaliensis" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82629D676FE35FB60" box="[376,391,1807,1830]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA826C4D677FD9BFB60" box="[405,553,1806,1830]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">mahafaliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82561D677FDDCFB60" bold="true" box="[560,622,1806,1830]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">comb</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8252DD677FD39FB60" bold="true" box="[636,651,1806,1830]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
.
</taxonomicNameLabel>
is very far removed from
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82642D657FE94FB03" box="[275,294,1838,1861]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">G</emphasis>
.
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA8266CD656FE36FB00" authorityName="Lourenco, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona" authorityYear="2004" box="[317,388,1839,1862]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simoni">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8266CD656FE36FB00" box="[317,388,1839,1862]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">simoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(=
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA826FED657FD21FB00" box="[431,659,1838,1862]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="madagascariensis">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA826FED657FE70FB03" box="[431,450,1838,1861]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82683D657FD21FB00" box="[466,659,1838,1862]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">madagascariensis</emphasis>
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), differing in all nine genus-level diagnostic characters, and in the fundamental architecture of the hemispermatophore capsule (cf.
<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFBEFFA827CFD6F7FF58FBE0" box="[158,234,1934,1958]" captionStart="Figures 7185" captionStartId="26.[113,190,1701,1723]" captionTargetBox="[149,1434,231,1678]" captionTargetId="figure-287@26.[146,1446,225,1690]" captionTargetPageId="26" captionText="Figures 7185. Hemispermatophores and capsule regions of Teruelius gen n. Multi-panel figures show: whole hemispermatophore; whole hemispermatophore and/or capsule with flagellum; capsule region in convex (or convex compressed), anterior and posterior views (panels in left to right sequence). Right hemispermatophores. Figure 71. T. ankarana, whole hemispermatophore. Scale bar: 4 mm. Figure 72. T. ankarana, capsule, left mirrored, Forêt dAnkavanana, FMNH. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 73. T. grandidieri, whole hemispermatophore (flagellum truncated). Scale bar: 4 mm. Figure 74. T. grandidieri, capsule, Antsakabe River, FMNH. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 75. T. flavopiceus, whole hemispermatophore. Scale bar: 2 mm. Figure 76. T. flavopiceus, capsule, Madagascar, GLPC, FKCP. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 77. T. annulatus, capsule, Tsimanampetsotsa National Park, GLPC, FKCP. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 78. T. ankarafantsika, capsule and flagellum. Scale bar: 400 μm. Figure 79. T. ankarafantsika, capsule, Forêt dAnkavanana, FMNH. Scale bar: 200 μm. Figure 80. T. ankarafantsika, capsule, Réserve Forestière de lAnkarafantsika, FMNH. Scale bar: 200 μm. Figure 81. T. olgae, capsule, Itampolo village, FMNH. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 82. T. limbatus, whole hemispermatophore (flagellum truncated). Scale bar: 2 mm. Figure 83. T. limbatus, capsule, Forêt dIanasana, FMNH. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 84. T. mahafaliensis, capsule views, Zombitse-Vohibasia National Park, GLPC, FKCP. Scale bar: 500 μm. Figure 85. T. intertidalis, capsule, Madagascar, GLPC, FKCP. Scale bar: 500 μm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143641" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143641/files/figure.png" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Fig. 84</figureCitation>
vs.
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).
</paragraph>
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discussed biogeographic hypotheses attempting to explain the distribution of the incongruous, polyphyletic
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82309D192FABEFD44" box="[1112,1292,235,259]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Grosphus simoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group. The very wide distribution of the group meant that it was “adapted to humid, dry and subarid environments”, and the two most disjunct species,
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA824A5D032FB35FD25" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco, Wilme &amp; Waeber" baseAuthorityYear="2018" box="[1012,1159,331,355]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bemaraha">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA824A5D032FBB5FD24" box="[1012,1031,331,354]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8234AD032FB35FD25" box="[1051,1159,331,355]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">bemaraha</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82399D032FA31FD25" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona" baseAuthorityYear="2004" box="[1224,1411,331,355]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mahafaliensis">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82399D032FB69FD24" box="[1224,1243,331,354]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA823BED032FA31FD25" box="[1263,1411,331,355]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">mahafaliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from western and southern localities, were speculated to “belong to relict populations, which may have survived in humid refugia encountered in the sedimentary basins during the dry episodes of the paleoclimate oscillations”. However, these two species are not closely related to the other four group members, but belong to
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82314D372FB15FE65" authority="Lowe &amp; Kovařík, 2019" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" box="[1093,1191,523,547]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus" status="gen. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82314D372FB15FE65" box="[1093,1191,523,547]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A25557F6FFBEFFA823E3D372FAB2FE64" box="[1202,1280,523,547]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA823E3D372FB68FE65" bold="true" box="[1202,1242,523,547]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">gen</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA823BAD372FB48FE65" bold="true" box="[1259,1274,523,547]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
.
</taxonomicNameLabel>
, whose ancestors may have already been adapted to dry environments. Although Pleistocene climatic fluctuations could be relevant for recent speciation events in
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82358D312FBC2FEC5" authorityName="Vachon" authorityYear="1940" box="[1033,1136,619,643]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82358D312FBC2FEC5" box="[1033,1136,619,643]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Grosphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA823F2D312FAB7FEC5" authority="Lowe &amp; Kovařík, 2019" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" box="[1187,1285,619,643]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus" status="gen. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA823F2D312FAB7FEC5" box="[1187,1285,619,643]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A25557F6FFBEFFA8225AD312FAE7FEC4" box="[1291,1365,619,643]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8225AD312FA81FEC5" bold="true" box="[1291,1331,619,643]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">gen</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82211D312FAFDFEC5" bold="true" box="[1344,1359,619,643]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
.
</taxonomicNameLabel>
, the many correlated characters separating these two genera suggest a far earlier split, as in other taxa. For example, dated molecular phylogenies of
<collectingCountry id="F305760FFFBEFFA824B2D3B2FBD6FEA5" box="[995,1124,715,739]" name="Madagascar" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Madagascar</collectingCountry>
archaeid spiders (Wood et al., 2015),
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA824D1D392FC59FF45" box="[896,1003,747,771]" class="Reptilia" family="Chamaeleonidae" genus="Brookesia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA824D1D392FC59FF45" box="[896,1003,747,771]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Brookesia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and other chameleons (
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;
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA82463D272FB97FF65" author="Townsend" box="[818,1061,779,803]" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Townsend" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="641 - 656" refId="ref43622" refString="TOWNSEND, T. M., D. R. VIEITES, F. GLAW &amp; M. VENCES. 2009. Testing species-level diversification hypotheses in Madagascar: the case of microendemic Brookesia leaf chameleons. Systematic Biology, 58 (6): 641 - 656." type="journal article" year="2009">Townsend et al., 2009</bibRefCitation>
) and
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82334D272FB51FF64" authorityName="Boulenger" authorityYear="1887" box="[1125,1251,779,802]" class="Reptilia" family="Gerrhosauridae" genus="Zonosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82334D272FB51FF64" box="[1125,1251,779,802]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Zonosaurus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
plated lizards (
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA822DCD272FC19FF05" author="BLAIR, C. &amp; B. P. NOONAN &amp; J. L. BROWN &amp; A. P. RASELIMANANA &amp; M. VENCES &amp; A. D. YODER" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Evolutionary Biology" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="481 - 492" part="28" refId="ref32794" refString="BLAIR, C., B. P. NOONAN, J. L. BROWN, A. P. RASELIMANANA, M. VENCES &amp; A. D. YODER. 2015. Multilocus phylogenetic and geospatial analyses illuminate diversification patterns and the biogeographic history of Malagasy endemic plated lizards (Gerrhosauridae: Zonosaurinae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 28: 481 - 492." title="Multilocus phylogenetic and geospatial analyses illuminate diversification patterns and the biogeographic history of Malagasy endemic plated lizards (Gerrhosauridae: Zonosaurinae)" type="journal article" year="2015">Blair et al., 2015</bibRefCitation>
) have revealed that the majority of divergences in these other endemic taxa are quite deep, occurring long before the advent of Pleistocene climate cycles.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFBEFFA82433D2F2FAEFF905" blockId="15.[818,1476,235,1347]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">
Species of
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82487D2F2FB8AFFE5" authority="Lowe &amp; Kovařík, 2019" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" box="[982,1080,907,931]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus" status="gen. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82487D2F2FB8AFFE5" box="[982,1080,907,931]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A25557F6FFBEFFA8236ED2F2FB3BFFE4" box="[1087,1161,907,931]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8236ED2F2FBD5FFE5" bold="true" box="[1087,1127,907,931]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">gen</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82325D2F2FB31FFE5" bold="true" box="[1140,1155,907,931]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
.
</taxonomicNameLabel>
can be loosely subdivided by size and coloration: large species,
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA823CDD2D2FA9DFF85" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Kraepelin" baseAuthorityYear="1900" box="[1180,1327,939,963]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="flavopiceus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA823CDD2D2FB19FF84" box="[1180,1195,939,962]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA823E6D2D2FA9DFF85" box="[1207,1327,939,963]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">flavopiceus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA8226DD2D2FA0FFF85" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco &amp; Goodman" baseAuthorityYear="2003" box="[1340,1469,939,963]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ankarana">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8226DD2D2FAF9FF84" box="[1340,1355,939,962]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82206D2D2FA0FFF85" box="[1367,1469,939,963]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">ankarana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82463D2B2FC79FFA5" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Kraepelin" baseAuthorityYear="1900" box="[818,971,971,995]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="grandidieri">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82463D2B2FCF3FFA4" box="[818,833,971,994]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82403D2B2FC79FFA5" box="[850,971,971,995]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">grandidieri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82357D2B2FBC1FFA5" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco" baseAuthorityYear="2012" box="[1030,1139,971,995]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bicolor">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82357D2B2FBA7FFA4" box="[1030,1045,971,994]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82377D2B2FBC1FFA5" box="[1062,1139,971,995]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">bicolor</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; species with patterns of dark stripes on tergites (
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA8235FD292FBC1F845" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Kraepelin" baseAuthorityYear="1900" box="[1038,1139,1003,1027]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bistriatus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8235FD292FBC1F845" box="[1038,1139,1003,1027]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">bistriatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group of
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):
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA824D7D572FBFBF865" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco" baseAuthorityYear="2003" box="[902,1097,1035,1059]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ankarafantsika">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA824D7D572FC27F864" box="[902,917,1035,1058]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA824F8D572FBFBF865" box="[937,1097,1035,1059]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">ankarafantsika</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA8230CD572FB57F865" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Kraepelin" baseAuthorityYear="1900" box="[1117,1253,1035,1059]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bistriatus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8230CD572FBDEF864" box="[1117,1132,1035,1058]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA823D1D572FB57F865" box="[1152,1253,1035,1059]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">bistriatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA823A8D572FA28F865" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco &amp; Wilme" baseAuthorityYear="2016" box="[1273,1434,1035,1059]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="eliseanneae">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA823A8D572FABAF864" box="[1273,1288,1035,1058]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8224DD572FA28F865" box="[1308,1434,1035,1059]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">eliseanneae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA822FFD572FCE6F805" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco" baseAuthorityYear="1996" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="feti">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA822FFD572FA0FF864" box="[1454,1469,1035,1058]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82463D552FCE6F805" box="[818,852,1067,1091]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">feti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82437D552FC51F805" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Pocock" baseAuthorityYear="1889" box="[870,995,1067,1091]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="limbatus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82437D552FCC7F804" box="[870,885,1067,1090]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA824D6D552FC51F805" box="[903,995,1067,1091]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">limbatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA824A4D552FBC7F805" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco &amp; Wilme" baseAuthorityYear="2016" box="[1013,1141,1067,1091]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sabineae">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA824A4D552FBB6F804" box="[1013,1028,1067,1090]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82347D552FBC7F805" box="[1046,1141,1067,1091]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">sabineae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA823E3D552FA9BF805" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco &amp; Wilme" baseAuthorityYear="2016" box="[1202,1321,1067,1091]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="waeberi">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA823E3D552FB73F804" box="[1202,1217,1067,1090]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82382D552FA9BF805" box="[1235,1321,1067,1091]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">waeberi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; species with almost uniform yellow, orange or brown tergites, and maybe darker metasoma IV or V:
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA8233CD512FB4BF8C5" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Fage" baseAuthorityYear="1929" box="[1133,1273,1131,1155]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="annulatus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8233CD512FBCEF8C4" box="[1133,1148,1131,1154]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA823C1D512FB4BF8C5" box="[1168,1273,1131,1155]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">annulatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA8225DD512FA29F8C5" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco, Wilme &amp; Waeber" baseAuthorityYear="2018" box="[1292,1435,1131,1155]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bemaraha">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8225DD512FAA9F8C4" box="[1292,1307,1131,1154]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8227ED512FA29F8C5" box="[1327,1435,1131,1155]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">bemaraha</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA822FFD512FC2CF8E5" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco, Wilme &amp; Waeber" baseAuthorityYear="2016" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ganzhorni">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA822FFD512FA0FF8C4" box="[1454,1469,1131,1154]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82463D5F2FC2CF8E5" box="[818,926,1163,1187]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">ganzhorni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA824FDD5F2FB8CF8E5" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco" baseAuthorityYear="1999" box="[940,1086,1163,1187]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="intertidalis">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA824FDD5F2FC09F8E4" box="[940,955,1163,1186]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82498D5F2FB8CF8E5" box="[969,1086,1163,1187]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">intertidalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8231DD5F2FBE9F8E4" box="[1100,1115,1163,1186]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82339D5F2FB65F8E5" box="[1128,1239,1163,1187]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">magalieae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA823B4D5F2FB46F8E4" box="[1253,1268,1163,1186]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82253D5F2FA24F8E5" box="[1282,1430,1163,1187]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">mahafaliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82463D5D2FCF3F884" box="[818,833,1195,1218]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8241FD5D2FC3BF885" box="[846,905,1195,1219]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">olgae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. These groupings have been used to construct species keys, in conjunction with some other characters including shapes of female basal pectine teeth (
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;
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA82206D592FCC4F965" author="LOURENCO, W. R." journalOrPublisher="Revue Suisse de Zoologie" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="141 - 154" part="110" refId="ref38276" refString="LOURENCO, W. R. 2003 c. New taxonomic considerations on some species of the genus Grosphus Simon, with description of a new species (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 110 (1): 141 - 154." title="New taxonomic considerations on some species of the genus Grosphus Simon, with description of a new species (Scorpiones, Buthidae)" type="journal article" year="2003">Lourenço, 2003c</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA824D2D472FC75F965" author="LOURENCO, W. R." bookContentInfo="105 pp." box="[899,967,1291,1315]" editor="Raselimanana A. P. &amp; Goodman S. M." journalOrPublisher="Recherches pour le developpement, Serie Sciences Biologiques" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="25 - 35" part="21" refId="ref38323" refString="LOURENCO, W. R. 2004 a. Scorpions du sud-ouest de Madagascar et en particulier de la foret des Mikea. Pp. 25 - 35, In: Raselimanana A. P. &amp; Goodman S. M. (eds), Inventaire floristique et faunistique de la foret de Mikea: Paysage ecologique et diversite biologique d'une preoccupation majeure pour la conservation, Recherches pour le developpement, Serie Sciences Biologiques, 21: 105 pp." title="Scorpions du sud-ouest de Madagascar et en particulier de la foret des Mikea" type="book chapter" volumeTitle="Inventaire floristique et faunistique de la foret de Mikea: Paysage ecologique et diversite biologique d'une preoccupation majeure pour la conservation" year="2004">2004a</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA82482D472FBBEF965" author="LOURENCO, W. R." box="[979,1036,1291,1315]" journalOrPublisher="Zoosystema" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="631 - 645" part="36" refId="ref38903" refString="LOURENCO, W. R. 2014. The genus Grosphus Simon, 1880 in South-Western Madagascar, with the description of a new species (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Zoosystema, 36 (3): 631 - 645." title="The genus Grosphus Simon, 1880 in South-Western Madagascar, with the description of a new species (Scorpiones, Buthidae)" type="journal article" year="2014">2014</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA82348D472FAA6F965" author="LOURENCO, W. R. &amp; V. SOARIMALALA &amp; S. M. GOODMAN" box="[1049,1300,1291,1315]" journalOrPublisher="Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="369 - 375" part="41" refId="ref39953" refString="LOURENCO, W. R., V. SOARIMALALA &amp; S. M. GOODMAN. 2007 b. Scorpions of south-west Madagascar. II. The species of Grosphus Simon (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 41: 369 - 375." title="Scorpions of south-west Madagascar. II. The species of Grosphus Simon (Scorpiones, Buthidae)" type="journal article" year="2007">Lourenço et al., 2007b</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA82271D472FA0AF965" author="Vachon" box="[1312,1464,1291,1315]" firstAuthor="Vachon" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="476 - 483" refId="ref44004" refString="VACHON, M. 1969. Grosphus griveaudi, nouvelle espece de Scorpion Buthidae malgache. Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, (2), 41: 476 - 483." type="journal article" year="1969">Vachon, 1969</bibRefCitation>
). Monophyly of these groupings remains to be tested.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFBEFFA82463D412FC44F9C5" blockId="15.[818,1477,1387,2019]" box="[818,1014,1387,1411]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">NEW SYNONYMIES.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82463D4F2FAA3F9E5" authority="Lourenco &amp; Wilme, 2015" authorityName="Lourenco &amp; Wilme" authorityYear="2015" box="[818,1297,1419,1443]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="makay">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82463D4F2FC5BF9E5" box="[818,1001,1419,1443]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Grosphus makay</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82264D4F2FC5FF985" authority="(Lourenco, 1996)" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco" baseAuthorityYear="1996" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="feti" status="comb. n., syn. n.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82264D4F2FA76F9E5" box="[1333,1476,1419,1443]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Teruelius feti</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA8246BD4D2FC54F985" author="LOURENCO, W. R." box="[826,998,1451,1475]" journalOrPublisher="Biogeographie de Madagascar. ORSTOM, Paris" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" pagination="441 - 455" refId="ref37587" refString="LOURENCO, W. R. 1996 a. Origins and affinities of the scorpion fauna of Madagascar. Pp. 441 - 455 in: Lourenco, W. R. (Ed.). Biogeographie de Madagascar. ORSTOM, Paris." title="Origins and affinities of the scorpion fauna of Madagascar" type="book chapter" volumeTitle="Lourenco, W. R" year="1996">Lourenço, 1996</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA824A5D4D2FB80F985" bold="true" box="[1012,1074,1451,1475]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">comb</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA8236ED4D2FBFCF985" bold="true" box="[1087,1102,1451,1475]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
.,
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82333D4D2FB3BF985" bold="true" box="[1122,1161,1451,1475]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">syn</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA823C7D4D2FB17F985" bold="true" box="[1174,1189,1451,1475]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">n</emphasis>
.
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</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82433D4B2FC46F9A5" authorityName="Lourenco" authorityYear="1996" box="[866,1012,1483,1507]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="feti">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFBEFFA82433D4B2FC46F9A5" box="[866,1012,1483,1507]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Grosphus feti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was described by
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFBEFFA82392D4B2FA35F9A5" author="LOURENCO, W. R." bookContentInfo="102 pp." box="[1219,1415,1483,1507]" journalOrPublisher="Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" refId="ref37632" refString="LOURENCO, W. R. 1996 b. Faune de Madagascar. 87. Scorpions (Chelicerata, Scorpiones). Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 102 pp." title="Faune de Madagascar. 87. Scorpions (Chelicerata, Scorpiones)" type="book" year="1996">Lourenço (1996b)</bibRefCitation>
from a juvenile male
<typeStatus id="54A9883DFFBEFFA824BDD492FBFEFA45" box="[1004,1100,1515,1539]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
, ostensibly collected from “Prov. Tulear, Tanjon I Vohimena [= Cap Sainte Marie] Réserve spéciale,
<date id="FFAC105FFFBEFFA824C8D752FC58FA05" box="[921,1002,1579,1603]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" value="1995-10">
<collectingDate id="EFE8E9B7FFBEFFA824C8D752FC58FA05" box="[921,1002,1579,1603]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" value="1995-10">X.1995</collectingDate>
</date>
” and deposited in FMNH.
<collectingCounty id="62CC4E13FFBEFFA8224FD752FAF3FA04" box="[1310,1345,1579,1602]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">We</collectingCounty>
loaned and studied the
<typeStatus id="54A9883DFFBEFFA824ECD732FBA8FA25" box="[957,1050,1611,1635]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
and a second juvenile male labeled as “
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<typeStatus id="54A9883DFFBEFFA824D1D712FC6CFAC5" box="[896,990,1643,1667]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" type="paratype">paratype</typeStatus>
” (which we concur is conspecific with the
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).
<collectingMunicipality id="6BC9ACE5FFBEFFA824FCD7F2FC56FAE5" box="[941,996,1675,1699]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Until</collectingMunicipality>
now, this species was only known from these
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.
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with the type, we found locality labels (
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) that differ from the published type locality: “
<collectingCountry id="F305760FFFBEFFA8246DD792FBB2FB45" box="[828,1024,1771,1795]" name="Madagascar" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">MADAGASCAR</collectingCountry>
:
<collectingRegion id="49D6F87DFFBEFFA8235DD792FB51FB45" box="[1036,1251,1771,1795]" country="Madagascar" name="Toliara" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Province de Toliara</collectingRegion>
, Fôret de Vohimena,
<locationDeviation id="9A1F2FBDFFBEFFA82463D672FBA0FB65" box="[818,1042,1803,1827]" location="Sakaraha" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">
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SE Sakaraha
</locationDeviation>
,
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</date>
, MyrCE-7541,
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,
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</quantity>
,
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0000 011 031 FMNH- INS
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFBEFFA82437D632FBD4FB24" authority="Lourenco" authorityName="Lourenco" authorityYear="1996" box="[870,1126,1867,1891]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="feti">
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Lourenço
</taxonomicName>
<typeStatus id="54A9883DFFBEFFA8233ED632FAB2FB25" box="[1135,1280,1867,1891]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" type="holotype">HOLOTYPE</typeStatus>
: det. 1996 ”. This locality is ca.
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roughly north of the published type locality at Cap Sainte Marie and the collection date of
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<collectingDate id="EFE8E9B7FFBEFFA82220D6F2FCD5FB85" pageId="15" pageNumber="14" value="1996-01">January 1996</collectingDate>
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is several months later. Either a labeling error occurred after description, or the published type locality is incorrect. Cap Sainte Marie is a biological study area and frequent source of scorpion materials (e.g.,
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) so data labels of specimens could have been confused.
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB72592D060FCA5FD77" bold="true" box="[707,791,279,305]" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">PTC ♂</emphasis>
</th>
<th id="76F35DA1FFA100582432D071FC04FD02" box="[867,950,264,324]" gridcol="4" gridrow="0" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB72432D060FC04FD77" bold="true" box="[867,950,279,305]" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">PTC ♀</emphasis>
</th>
<th id="76F35DA1FFA1005824BCD071FB34FD02" box="[1005,1158,264,324]" gridcol="5" gridrow="0" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB724BCD071FBD5FD05" bold="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">basal pectine tooth ♀</emphasis>
</th>
<th id="76F35DA1FFA1005823E2D071FAA8FD02" box="[1203,1306,264,324]" gridcol="6" gridrow="0" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB723E2D060FAA8FD77" bold="true" box="[1203,1306,281,305]" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">spiracles</emphasis>
</th>
<th id="76F35DA1FFA10058226ED071FA01FD02" box="[1343,1459,264,324]" gridcol="7" gridrow="0" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB7226ED071FA15FD05" bold="true" box="[1343,1459,264,323]" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">telotarsus setation</emphasis>
</th>
</tr>
<tr id="352234DDFFA10058272AD018FA01FEBA" box="[123,1459,353,764]" gridrow="1" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<th id="76F35DA1FFA10058272AD018FE23FEBA" box="[123,401,353,764]" gridcol="0" gridrow="1" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB7272AD018FEEEFEBD" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA1FFB7272AD018FE84FD3F" authorityName="Lourenco, Wilme &amp; Waeber" authorityYear="2018" box="[123,310,353,377]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ambre">Grosphus ambre</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA1FFB7272AD0EDFEC3FDEA" authorityName="Lourenco, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona" authorityYear="2004" box="[123,369,404,428]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="darainensis">Grosphus darainensis</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA1FFB7272AD0BEFEC0FD99" authorityName="Lourenco &amp; Goodman" authorityYear="2009" box="[123,370,455,479]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mayottensis">Grosphus mayottensis</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA1FFB7272AD083FE8CFE54" authorityName="Lourenco, Qi &amp; Goodman" authorityYear="2007" box="[123,318,506,530]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="polskyi">Grosphus polskyi</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA1FFB7272AD354FE3CFE03" authorityName="Lourenco, Wilme, Soarimalala &amp; Waeber" authorityYear="2017" box="[123,398,557,581]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rakotoariveloi">Grosphus rakotoariveloi</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA1FFB7272AD319FEEAFE3E" authorityName="Lourenco, Soarimalala &amp; Goodman" authorityYear="2009" box="[123,344,608,632]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tavaratra">Grosphus tavaratra</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA1FFB7272AD3DBFE23FEFC" authorityName="Lourenco, Wilme &amp; Waeber" authorityYear="2015" box="[123,401,674,698]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Neogrosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="andrafiabe">Neogrosphus andrafiabe</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA1FFB7272AD39AFEEEFEBD" authorityName="Lourenco" authorityYear="1996" box="[123,348,739,763]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Neogrosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="blanci">Neogrosphus blanci</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
</th>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005826EFD018FD9BFEBA" box="[446,553,353,764]" gridcol="1" gridrow="1" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">internal? internal internal internal internal dorsal/ carinal dorsal</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582514D018FD39FEBA" box="[581,651,353,764]" gridcol="2" gridrow="1" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">&gt; 0.5? ~ 0.5 &lt;0.5&gt; 0.5&gt; 0.5 </td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582592D018FCA5FEBA" box="[707,791,353,764]" gridcol="3" gridrow="1" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">17 1718 1819 1819 2223 2728 27</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582432D018FC04FEBA" box="[867,950,353,764]" gridcol="4" gridrow="1" pageId="16" pageNumber="15"> 1718 </td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005824BCD018FB34FEBA" box="[1005,1158,353,764]" gridcol="5" gridrow="1" pageId="16" pageNumber="15"> short, wide </td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005823E2D018FAA8FEBA" box="[1203,1306,353,764]" gridcol="6" gridrow="1" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">elliptic elliptic </td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA10058226ED018FA01FEBA" box="[1343,1459,353,764]" gridcol="7" gridrow="1" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">sparse sparse sparse </td>
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<tr id="352234DDFFA10058272AD26FFA01FF69" box="[123,1459,790,815]" gridrow="2" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<th id="76F35DA1FFA10058272AD26FFE23FF69" box="[123,401,790,815]" gridcol="0" gridrow="2" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA1FFB7272AD26FFEEFFF68" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco, Wilme &amp; Waeber" baseAuthorityYear="2018" box="[123,349,790,814]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bemaraha">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB7272AD26FFEEFFF68" box="[123,349,790,814]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">Teruelius bemaraha</emphasis>
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</th>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005826EFD26FFD9BFF69" box="[446,553,790,815]" gridcol="1" gridrow="2" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">carinal</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582514D26FFD39FF69" box="[581,651,790,815]" gridcol="2" gridrow="2" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">?</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582592D26FFCA5FF69" box="[707,791,790,815]" gridcol="3" gridrow="2" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">2930</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582432D26FFC04FF69" box="[867,950,790,815]" gridcol="4" gridrow="2" pageId="16" pageNumber="15"></td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005824BCD26FFB34FF69" box="[1005,1158,790,815]" gridcol="5" gridrow="2" pageId="16" pageNumber="15"></td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005823E2D26FFAA8FF69" box="[1203,1306,790,815]" gridcol="6" gridrow="2" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">narrow</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA10058226ED26FFA01FF69" box="[1343,1459,790,815]" gridcol="7" gridrow="2" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">dense</td>
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<tr id="352234DDFFA10058272AD22FFA01FF28" box="[123,1459,854,878]" gridrow="3" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<th id="76F35DA1FFA10058272AD22FFE23FF28" box="[123,401,854,878]" gridcol="0" gridrow="3" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA1FFB7272AD22FFE8EFF28" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco" baseAuthorityYear="2012" box="[123,316,854,878]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bicolor">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB7272AD22FFE8EFF28" box="[123,316,854,878]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">Teruelius bicolor</emphasis>
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</th>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005826EFD22FFD9BFF28" box="[446,553,854,878]" gridcol="1" gridrow="3" pageId="16" pageNumber="15"></td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582514D22FFD39FF28" box="[581,651,854,878]" gridcol="2" gridrow="3" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">?</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582592D22FFCA5FF28" box="[707,791,854,878]" gridcol="3" gridrow="3" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">36</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582432D22FFC04FF28" box="[867,950,854,878]" gridcol="4" gridrow="3" pageId="16" pageNumber="15"></td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005824BCD22FFB34FF28" box="[1005,1158,854,878]" gridcol="5" gridrow="3" pageId="16" pageNumber="15"></td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005823E2D22FFAA8FF28" box="[1203,1306,854,878]" gridcol="6" gridrow="3" pageId="16" pageNumber="15"></td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA10058226ED22FFA01FF28" box="[1343,1459,854,878]" gridcol="7" gridrow="3" pageId="16" pageNumber="15"></td>
</tr>
<tr id="352234DDFFA10058272AD2DBFA01FFFC" box="[123,1459,930,954]" gridrow="4" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<th id="76F35DA1FFA10058272AD2DBFE23FFFC" box="[123,401,930,954]" gridcol="0" gridrow="4" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA1FFB7272AD2DBFEDDFFFC" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco &amp; Wilme" baseAuthorityYear="2016" box="[123,367,930,954]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="eliseanneae">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB7272AD2DBFEDDFFFC" box="[123,367,930,954]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">Teruelius eliseanneae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</th>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005826EFD2DBFD9BFFFC" box="[446,553,930,954]" gridcol="1" gridrow="4" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">internal</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582514D2DBFD39FFFC" box="[581,651,930,954]" gridcol="2" gridrow="4" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">&lt;0.5</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582592D2DBFCA5FFFC" box="[707,791,930,954]" gridcol="3" gridrow="4" pageId="16" pageNumber="15"></td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582432D2DBFC04FFFC" box="[867,950,930,954]" gridcol="4" gridrow="4" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">24</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005824BCD2DBFB34FFFC" box="[1005,1158,930,954]" gridcol="5" gridrow="4" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">long, narrow</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005823E2D2DBFAA8FFFC" box="[1203,1306,930,954]" gridcol="6" gridrow="4" pageId="16" pageNumber="15"></td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA10058226ED2DBFA01FFFC" box="[1343,1459,930,954]" gridcol="7" gridrow="4" pageId="16" pageNumber="15"></td>
</tr>
<tr id="352234DDFFA10058272AD298FA01FFBF" box="[123,1459,993,1017]" gridrow="5" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<th id="76F35DA1FFA10058272AD298FE23FFBF" box="[123,401,993,1017]" gridcol="0" gridrow="5" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA1FFB7272AD298FEEFFFBF" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco, Wilme &amp; Waeber" baseAuthorityYear="2016" box="[123,349,993,1017]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ganzhorni">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB7272AD298FEEFFFBF" box="[123,349,993,1017]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">Teruelius ganzhorni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</th>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005826EFD298FD9BFFBF" box="[446,553,993,1017]" gridcol="1" gridrow="5" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">dorsal</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582514D298FD39FFBF" box="[581,651,993,1017]" gridcol="2" gridrow="5" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">&gt; 0.5?</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582592D298FCA5FFBF" box="[707,791,993,1017]" gridcol="3" gridrow="5" pageId="16" pageNumber="15"></td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582432D298FC04FFBF" box="[867,950,993,1017]" gridcol="4" gridrow="5" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">2528</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005824BCD298FB34FFBF" box="[1005,1158,993,1017]" gridcol="5" gridrow="5" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">long, narrow</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005823E2D298FAA8FFBF" box="[1203,1306,993,1017]" gridcol="6" gridrow="5" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">narrow</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA10058226ED298FA01FFBF" box="[1343,1459,993,1017]" gridcol="7" gridrow="5" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">dense</td>
</tr>
<tr id="352234DDFFA10058272AD55AFA01F87D" box="[123,1459,1059,1083]" gridrow="6" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<th id="76F35DA1FFA10058272AD55AFE23F87D" box="[123,401,1059,1083]" gridcol="0" gridrow="6" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA1FFB7272AD55AFED2F87D" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco" baseAuthorityYear="2014" box="[123,352,1059,1083]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magalieae">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB7272AD55AFED2F87D" box="[123,352,1059,1083]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">Teruelius magalieae</emphasis>
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</th>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005826EFD55AFD9BF87D" box="[446,553,1059,1083]" gridcol="1" gridrow="6" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">dorsal</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582514D55AFD39F87D" box="[581,651,1059,1083]" gridcol="2" gridrow="6" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">&lt;0.5</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582592D55AFCA5F87D" box="[707,791,1059,1083]" gridcol="3" gridrow="6" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">36</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582432D55AFC04F87D" box="[867,950,1059,1083]" gridcol="4" gridrow="6" pageId="16" pageNumber="15"></td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005824BCD55AFB34F87D" box="[1005,1158,1059,1083]" gridcol="5" gridrow="6" pageId="16" pageNumber="15"></td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005823E2D55AFAA8F87D" box="[1203,1306,1059,1083]" gridcol="6" gridrow="6" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">narrow</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA10058226ED55AFA01F87D" box="[1343,1459,1059,1083]" gridcol="7" gridrow="6" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">dense</td>
</tr>
<tr id="352234DDFFA10058272AD50AFA01F8CD" box="[123,1459,1139,1163]" gridrow="7" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<th id="76F35DA1FFA10058272AD50AFE23F8CD" box="[123,401,1139,1163]" gridcol="0" gridrow="7" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA1FFB7272AD50AFEFDF8CD" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco &amp; Wilme" baseAuthorityYear="2016" box="[123,335,1139,1163]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sabineae">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB7272AD50AFEFDF8CD" box="[123,335,1139,1163]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">Teruelius sabineae</emphasis>
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</th>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005826EFD50AFD9BF8CD" box="[446,553,1139,1163]" gridcol="1" gridrow="7" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">dorsal</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582514D50AFD39F8CD" box="[581,651,1139,1163]" gridcol="2" gridrow="7" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">&lt;0.5</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582592D50AFCA5F8CD" box="[707,791,1139,1163]" gridcol="3" gridrow="7" pageId="16" pageNumber="15"></td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582432D50AFC04F8CD" box="[867,950,1139,1163]" gridcol="4" gridrow="7" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">25</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005824BCD50AFB34F8CD" box="[1005,1158,1139,1163]" gridcol="5" gridrow="7" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">long, narrow</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005823E2D50AFAA8F8CD" box="[1203,1306,1139,1163]" gridcol="6" gridrow="7" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">narrow</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA10058226ED50AFA01F8CD" box="[1343,1459,1139,1163]" gridcol="7" gridrow="7" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">dense</td>
</tr>
<tr id="352234DDFFA10058272AD5C5FA01F892" box="[123,1459,1212,1236]" gridrow="8" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<th id="76F35DA1FFA10058272AD5C5FE23F892" box="[123,401,1212,1236]" gridcol="0" gridrow="8" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA1FFB7272AD5C5FEF4F892" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco &amp; Wilme" baseAuthorityYear="2016" box="[123,326,1212,1236]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="waeberi">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB7272AD5C5FEF4F892" box="[123,326,1212,1236]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">Teruelius waeberi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</th>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005826EFD5C5FD9BF892" box="[446,553,1212,1236]" gridcol="1" gridrow="8" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">dorsal</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582514D5C5FD39F892" box="[581,651,1212,1236]" gridcol="2" gridrow="8" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">~ 0.5</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582592D5C5FCA5F892" box="[707,791,1212,1236]" gridcol="3" gridrow="8" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">2630</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA100582432D5C5FC04F892" box="[867,950,1212,1236]" gridcol="4" gridrow="8" pageId="16" pageNumber="15"></td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005824BCD5C5FB34F892" box="[1005,1158,1212,1236]" gridcol="5" gridrow="8" pageId="16" pageNumber="15"></td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA1005823E2D5C5FAA8F892" box="[1203,1306,1212,1236]" gridcol="6" gridrow="8" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">narrow</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA10058226ED5C5FA01F892" box="[1343,1459,1212,1236]" gridcol="7" gridrow="8" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">dense</td>
</tr>
</table>
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB7273FD584FF0AF957" bold="true" box="[110,184,1276,1298]" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">Table 3</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB72795D585FDDFF954" bold="true" box="[196,621,1276,1298]" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">Character states for species not examined</emphasis>
. States of 6 characters for
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB7243DD584FC7AF954" box="[876,968,1277,1298]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">Grosphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(6 spp., blue panels),
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB723CDD584FAA8F954" box="[1180,1306,1277,1298]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">Neogrosphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(2 spp., magenta panels) and
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB727B3D460FE88F968" box="[226,314,1305,1326]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">Teruelius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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.
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.
</taxonomicNameLabel>
(7 spp., yellow panels) not examined in this study: position of trichobothrium
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB7232CD460FB3BF968" box="[1149,1161,1305,1326]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">d</emphasis>
on pedipalp femur; ratio
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB722D6D463FA24F969" box="[1415,1430,1306,1327]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">R</emphasis>
= 2 123 d(
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,
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)/ d(
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,
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) of distances between pedipalp manus trichobothria
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB7241BD44FFCD7F90D" box="[842,869,1334,1355]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">Eb</emphasis>
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,
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB72428D44FFC26F90D" box="[889,916,1334,1355]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">Eb</emphasis>
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and
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB7249BD44FFC57F90D" box="[970,997,1334,1355]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">Eb</emphasis>
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; ranges of pectinal tooth counts (PTC) of males (♂) and females (♀);size and shape of female basal pectinal tooth; shape of spiracles; and telotarsal setation. Character states inferred from published descriptions and figures. PTC and basal pectinal tooth characters not indicated in cases where either males or females are not known or described. Other characters not indicated in cases where published descriptions did not yield clear information.
</paragraph>
</caption>
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The FMNH label site is ca.
<quantity id="4CEA9B7AFFA1FFB7268ED757FD81FA00" box="[479,563,1582,1606]" metricMagnitude="5" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.45" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" unit="km" value="145.0">145 km</quantity>
south and slightly west of the type locality of
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA1FFB726E0D737FE92FAC0" authority="(Lourenco &amp; Wilme, 2015 b)" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco &amp; Wilme" baseAuthorityYear="2015" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="makay">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB726E0D737FDDBFA20" box="[433,617,1614,1638]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">Grosphus makay</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFA1FFB7252AD737FEAAFAC0" author="LOURENCO, W. R. &amp; L. WILME" journalOrPublisher="Revista Iberica de Arachnologia" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" pagination="55 - 61" part="26" refId="ref40226" refString="LOURENCO, W. R. &amp; L. WILME. 2015 b. Scorpions collected in the Makay mountain range, Madagascar (Scorpiones: Hormuridae, Buthidae) and with description of a new species. Revista Iberica de Arachnologia, 26: 55 - 61." title="Scorpions collected in the Makay mountain range, Madagascar (Scorpiones: Hormuridae, Buthidae) and with description of a new species" type="journal article" year="2015">Lourenço &amp; Wilmé, 2015b</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
: “Region Atsimo-Andrefana, ex Province of
<collectingRegion id="49D6F87DFFA1FFB727C2D7F7FF53FAE0" box="[147,225,1678,1702]" country="Madagascar" name="Toliara" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">Toliara</collectingRegion>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA1FFB727A0D7F7FE6DFAE0" authority="Mts., General" authorityName="Mts., General" box="[241,479,1678,1702]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="makay">Makay Mts., General</taxonomicName>
Collection, dry-Forest on sandy soil,
<date id="FFAC105FFFA1FFB727ADD7D7FEC7FA80" box="[252,373,1710,1734]" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" value="2010-03-12">12/III/2010</date>
(B. L. Fisher et al.). BLF25549. Female
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(CAS)”. These two localities have sandstone substrates, similar elevation and are located in the same general bioclimatic region. Comparison of the published habitus of the
<typeStatus id="54A9883DFFA1FFB727ECD657FEA8FB00" box="[189,282,1838,1862]" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
adult female of
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB72688D657FE5AFB03" box="[473,488,1838,1861]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB726A8D657FD8DFB00" box="[505,575,1838,1862]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">makay</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and the
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juvenile male of
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA1FFB72677D637FED6FB20" authorityName="Lourenco" authorityYear="1996" box="[294,356,1870,1894]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="feti">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB72677D637FE87FB23" box="[294,309,1870,1893]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB72613D637FED6FB20" box="[322,356,1870,1894]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">feti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
revealed very similar morphology and morphometrics even though sex and age differ. Most notably, their color patterns are identical in all details including: pattern of fuscosity on interocular triangle of carapace with pale cut-out behind lateral eyes; thin median line, precise fuscous banding patterns and transverse lateral striping on all tergites; darkly marked ventrolateral and ventromedian carinae on metasoma IIV; fuscous patterns on metasoma V and telson; short fuscous strip on interno-proximal margin of pedipalp patella; leg femora with distal short, pale cut-outs on distal dark areas of prolateral surfaces and pale narrow lines on dorsal margins; and leg patellae with fuscous ventral margins on prolateral surfaces (compare
<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFA1FFB723B4D7D7FA8CFA80" box="[1253,1342,1710,1734]" captionStart="Figure 459" captionStartId="97.[113,181,1982,2004]" captionTargetBox="[113,1474,234,1946]" captionTargetId="figure-36@97.[113,1474,234,1949]" captionTargetPageId="97" captionText="Figure 459. Teruelius feti. Holotype juvenile male. Habitus, dorsal view, with specimen labels (FMNH). Scale bar: 5 mm (holotype). Figure 459a. Adult female from Makay Mts., carapace and tergites III." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143796" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143796/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">Fig. 459</figureCitation>
to fig. 13 of
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFA1FFB72461D7B7FBE9FAA0" author="LOURENCO, W. R. &amp; L. WILME" box="[816,1115,1742,1766]" journalOrPublisher="Revista Iberica de Arachnologia" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" pagination="55 - 61" part="26" refId="ref40226" refString="LOURENCO, W. R. &amp; L. WILME. 2015 b. Scorpions collected in the Makay mountain range, Madagascar (Scorpiones: Hormuridae, Buthidae) and with description of a new species. Revista Iberica de Arachnologia, 26: 55 - 61." title="Scorpions collected in the Makay mountain range, Madagascar (Scorpiones: Hormuridae, Buthidae) and with description of a new species" type="journal article" year="2015">Lourenço &amp; Wilmé, 2015b</bibRefCitation>
). These very particular details of pigmentation pattern are not found in
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB7239FD797FB6FFB43" box="[1230,1245,1774,1797]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB723BAD797FAF5FB40" box="[1259,1351,1774,1798]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">limbatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
which was regarded as a closely related species (
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,
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). We also examined
<specimenCount id="9D14FD16FFA1FFB72357D657FBDFFB00" box="[1030,1133,1838,1862]" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" type="adult">two adult</specimenCount>
females, near topotypes of
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA1FFB722F9D657FCC4FB20" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="makay">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB722F9D657FA09FB03" box="[1448,1467,1838,1861]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB72461D637FCC4FB20" box="[816,886,1870,1894]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">makay</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from the
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, that exhibited the same coloration patterns and morphometrics as
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA1FFB723ABD617FA88FBC0" authorityName="Lourenco" authorityYear="1996" box="[1274,1338,1902,1926]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="16" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="feti">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB723ABD617FABBFBC3" box="[1274,1289,1902,1925]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA1FFB72249D617FA88FBC0" box="[1304,1338,1902,1926]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">feti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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). We allowed for the fact that juveniles of pigmented scorpions usually display darker, more intense markings, and that in adults these color patterns are somewhat faded. Details of coloration pattern have been given high priority as characters for species-level taxonomy of
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA0FFB62680D4CFFD8AF988" authorityName="Vachon" authorityYear="1940" box="[465,568,1462,1486]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB62680D4CFFD8AF988" box="[465,568,1462,1486]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">Grosphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFA0FFB6251DD4CFFF0AF9A8" author="LOURENCO, W. R. &amp; V. SOARIMALALA &amp; S. M. GOODMAN" journalOrPublisher="Malagasy Nature" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" pagination="144 - 153" part="2" refId="ref40004" refString="LOURENCO, W. R., V. SOARIMALALA &amp; S. M. GOODMAN. 2009 b. The species of Grosphus Simon (Scorpiones, Buthidae) distributed in the northern and eastern regions of Madagascar with the description of a new species. Malagasy Nature, 2: 144 - 153." title="The species of Grosphus Simon (Scorpiones, Buthidae) distributed in the northern and eastern regions of Madagascar with the description of a new species" type="journal article" year="2009">Lourenço et al., 2009b</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFA0FFB62798D4AFFECCF9A8" author="LOURENCO, W. R." box="[201,382,1494,1518]" journalOrPublisher="Zoosystema" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" pagination="631 - 645" part="36" refId="ref38903" refString="LOURENCO, W. R. 2014. The genus Grosphus Simon, 1880 in South-Western Madagascar, with the description of a new species (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Zoosystema, 36 (3): 631 - 645." title="The genus Grosphus Simon, 1880 in South-Western Madagascar, with the description of a new species (Scorpiones, Buthidae)" type="journal article" year="2014">Lourenço, 2014</bibRefCitation>
). We therefore consider
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA0FFB625CDD4AFFF05FA48" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="makay">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB625CDD4AFFF05FA48" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">Grosphus makay</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to be a junior synonym of
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB6268ED48FFE5CFA4B" box="[479,494,1526,1549]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB626ADD48FFDACFA48" box="[508,542,1526,1550]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">feti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and the correct type locality of the latter to be that indicated on FMNH data labels.
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA0FFB62720D74FFF01FA08" authorityName="Lourenco" authorityYear="1996" box="[113,179,1590,1614]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="feti">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB62720D74FFF32FA0B" box="[113,128,1590,1613]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB627C0D74FFF01FA08" box="[145,179,1590,1614]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">feti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was never again collected from Cap Sainte Marie in over two decades of fieldwork since its description, although other scorpion species (e.g.,
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA0FFB626E8D70FFD88FAC8" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco &amp; Wilme" baseAuthorityYear="2016" box="[441,570,1654,1678]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sabineae">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB626E8D70FFE7AFACB" box="[441,456,1654,1677]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB6268AD70FFD88FAC8" box="[475,570,1654,1678]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">sabineae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) were discovered there. The adult male remains unknown. Our opinion could be verified by collection and analysis of topotypic adult and juvenile specimens from the FMNH locality. The description of
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB627C0D78FFF12FB4B" box="[145,160,1782,1805]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB627FED78FFF63FB48" box="[175,209,1782,1806]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">feti</emphasis>
(
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)
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noted the juvenile status of the
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which is ca.
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, but
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diagnosed the species as “of small size with a total length of
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”. Small size cannot be a species diagnostic character if it is a property of the juvenile, and adult males are probably medium-sized, comparable to an adult female of
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.
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, ca.
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in body length. Our synonymy also implies that this is not a microendemic species of the upper Central Menabe, as suggested of
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. The
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.
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emended type locality lies a significant distance south of the
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, in the Mangoky watershed (
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).
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB624E8D06AFBEBFD68" bold="true" box="[953,1113,275,302]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">Neogrosphus</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB623E6D06AFA38FD68" bold="true" box="[1207,1418,275,302]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB623E6D06AFA98FD68" bold="true" box="[1207,1322,275,302]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">Teruelius</emphasis>
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femur
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</emphasis>
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<td id="76F35DA1FFA0005824F4D037FBC2FDCB" box="[933,1136,334,397]" gridcol="3" gridrow="1" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">internal/carinal/ external</td>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB627A1D37FFEFAFE66" bold="true" box="[240,328,515,544]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">PTC ♂</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB627A1D321FEFAFE35" bold="true" box="[240,328,598,627]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">PTC ♀</emphasis>
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<th id="76F35DA1FFA0005827C4D3E1FE11FE9E" box="[149,419,664,728]" gridcol="0" gridrow="5" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB627C9D3D2FE12FE83" bold="true" box="[152,416,680,709]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">basal pectine tooth ♀</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB627CFD23BFEC0FFC4" bold="true" box="[158,410,834,898]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">hemispermatophore posterior lobe</emphasis>
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<th id="76F35DA1FFA0005827C4D52AFE11F82B" box="[149,419,1107,1133]" gridcol="0" gridrow="10" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB627FBD52AFE3FF82B" bold="true" box="[170,397,1107,1133]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">telotarsus setation</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB627E4D5DFFE30F8F9" bold="true" box="[181,386,1189,1216]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">UV fluorescence</emphasis>
</th>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA00058268BD5DCFD2CF886" box="[474,670,1189,1216]" gridcol="1" gridrow="11" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">weak</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA000582590D5DCFC3EF886" box="[705,908,1189,1216]" gridcol="2" gridrow="11" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">weak</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA0005824F4D5DCFBC2F886" box="[933,1136,1189,1216]" gridcol="3" gridrow="11" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">strong</td>
<td id="76F35DA1FFA0005823FCD5DCFA20F886" box="[1197,1426,1189,1216]" gridcol="4" gridrow="11" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">strong</td>
</tr>
</table>
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFA0FFB62720D58FFB7EF924" blockId="17.[113,1474,1269,1378]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB62720D58FFF73F94C" bold="true" box="[113,193,1269,1291]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">Table 4</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB62782D58CFB81F94D" bold="true" box="[211,1075,1269,1291]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">
Character states for
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB626EFD58CFDACF94D" bold="true" box="[446,542,1269,1291]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">Grosphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group genera and outgroup genus
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA0FFB624FDD58CFB81F94D" authorityName="Kraepelin" authorityYear="1911" box="[940,1075,1269,1291]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Pseudolychas" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB624FDD58CFB81F94D" bold="true" box="[940,1075,1269,1291]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">Pseudolychas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
. States of 11 characters for
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB62231D58FFA0EF94D" box="[1376,1468,1270,1291]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">Grosphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB62720D46BFF5DF961" box="[113,239,1298,1319]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">Neogrosphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA0FFB627ACD46BFEE7F961" authority="Lowe &amp; Kovařík, 2019" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" box="[253,341,1298,1319]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus" status="gen. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB627ACD46BFEE7F961" box="[253,341,1298,1319]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">Teruelius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB6260FD46AFE30F96E" bold="true" box="[350,386,1299,1320]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">gen</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB626C1D46AFE2FF96E" bold="true" box="[400,413,1299,1320]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">n</emphasis>
.
</taxonomicNameLabel>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA0FFB62686D46BFDE9F961" authorityName="Kraepelin" authorityYear="1911" box="[471,603,1298,1319]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Pseudolychas" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB62686D46BFDE9F961" box="[471,603,1298,1319]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">Pseudolychas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, summarizing data of Tables 13.
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB624E2D46BFB85F961" box="[947,1079,1298,1319]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">Pseudolychas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
character states determined by study of materials, and from published descriptions. Primitive states indicated by green panels, derived states by red panels, with polarities determined by comparison to
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA0FFB6264FD435FE10F927" authorityName="Kraepelin" authorityYear="1911" box="[286,418,1356,1377]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Pseudolychas" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB6264FD435FE10F927" box="[286,418,1356,1377]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">Pseudolychas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
which is assumed primitive. Unpolarized characters indicated by dark green panels.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFA0FFB62461D74FFA70FA2B" blockId="17.[816,1475,1590,2030]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA0FFB62461D74FFB2AFA08" authority="Lourenco, 2013" authorityName="Lourenco" authorityYear="2013" box="[816,1176,1590,1614]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rossii">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB62461D74FFC6FFA0B" box="[816,989,1590,1614]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">Grosphus rossii</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFA0FFB624BBD74FFB2AFA08" author="LOURENCO, W. R." box="[1002,1176,1590,1614]" journalOrPublisher="Comptes Rendus Biologies" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" pagination="515 - 520" part="336" refId="ref38813" refString="LOURENCO, W. R. 2013 a. The remarkable peri-Saharan distribution of the genus Butheoloides Hirst (Scorpiones, Buthidae), with the description of a new species from Cameroon. Comptes Rendus Biologies, 336 (10): 515 - 520." title="The remarkable peri-Saharan distribution of the genus Butheoloides Hirst (Scorpiones, Buthidae), with the description of a new species from Cameroon" type="journal article" year="2013">Lourenço, 2013</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
=
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA0FFB623EED74FFAB6FA28" authority="(Lourenco, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona, 2004)" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona" baseAuthorityYear="2004" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mahafaliensis" status="comb. n., syn. n.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB623EED74FFA70FA08" box="[1215,1474,1590,1614]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">Teruelius mahafaliensis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFA0FFB62469D72FFB4CFA28" author="LOURENCO, W. R. &amp; S. M. GOODMAN &amp; O. RAMILIJAONA" box="[824,1278,1622,1646]" journalOrPublisher="Revista Iberica de Aracnologia" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" pagination="225 - 234" part="9" refId="ref39550" refString="LOURENCO, W. R., S. M. GOODMAN &amp; O. RAMILIJAONA. 2004. Three new species of Grosphus Simon from Madagascar (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Revista Iberica de Aracnologia, 9: 225 - 234." title="Three new species of Grosphus Simon from Madagascar (Scorpiones, Buthidae)" type="journal article" year="2004">Lourenço, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona, 2004</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB6225AD72FFAFBFA28" bold="true" box="[1291,1353,1622,1646]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">comb</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB62207D72FFAD7FA28" bold="true" box="[1366,1381,1622,1646]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">n</emphasis>
.,
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB62228D72FFA12FA28" bold="true" box="[1401,1440,1622,1646]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">syn</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB622FCD72FFA0EFA28" bold="true" box="[1453,1468,1622,1646]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">n</emphasis>
.
</taxonomicNameLabel>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFA0FFB22431D70FFEF3FD24" blockId="17.[816,1475,1590,2030]" lastBlockId="21.[113,771,235,1027]" lastPageId="21" lastPageNumber="20" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA0FFB62431D70FFBB4FACB" authorityName="Lourenco" authorityYear="2013" box="[864,1030,1654,1678]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rossii">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB62431D70FFBB4FACB" box="[864,1030,1654,1678]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">Grosphus rossii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was described by
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFA0FFB62399D70FFA3BFAC8" author="LOURENCO, W. R." box="[1224,1417,1654,1678]" journalOrPublisher="Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" pagination="57 - 62" part="16" refId="ref38860" refString="LOURENCO, W. R. 2013 b. A new species of Grosphus Simon, 1880 (Scorpiones, Buthidae) from Central Madagascar. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg, 16 (189): 57 - 62." title="A new species of Grosphus Simon, 1880 (Scorpiones, Buthidae) from Central Madagascar" type="journal article" year="2013">Lourenço (2013b)</bibRefCitation>
from a single adult male
<typeStatus id="54A9883DFFA0FFB62359D7EFFBD7FAE8" box="[1032,1125,1686,1710]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
collected from “
<collectingRegion id="49D6F87DFFA0FFB6224FD7EFFA0CFAE8" box="[1310,1470,1686,1710]" country="Ghana" name="Central" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">Central region</collectingRegion>
, NE Manandona, S of Antsirabe, in secondary growth forest, under log,
<date id="FFAC105FFFA0FFB624F6D7AFFBFBFAA8" box="[935,1097,1750,1774]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" value="2004-08-08">8 August 2004</date>
, W. R Lourenço” and deposited in ZMUH. We loaned and studied the
<typeStatus id="54A9883DFFA0FFB623FCD78FFAB8FB48" box="[1197,1290,1782,1806]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
and found that it was virtually identical in coloration, external morphological characters and morphometrics to
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA0FFB623EAD64FFAA8FB28" authority="(Lourenco, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona, 2004)" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona" baseAuthorityYear="2004" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mahafaliensis" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB623EAD64FFA70FB08" box="[1211,1474,1846,1870]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">Teruelius mahafaliensis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFA0FFB62469D62FFAA1FB28" author="LOURENCO, W. R. &amp; S. M. GOODMAN &amp; O. RAMILIJAONA" box="[824,1299,1878,1902]" journalOrPublisher="Revista Iberica de Aracnologia" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" pagination="225 - 234" part="9" refId="ref39550" refString="LOURENCO, W. R., S. M. GOODMAN &amp; O. RAMILIJAONA. 2004. Three new species of Grosphus Simon from Madagascar (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Revista Iberica de Aracnologia, 9: 225 - 234." title="Three new species of Grosphus Simon from Madagascar (Scorpiones, Buthidae)" type="journal article" year="2004">Lourenço, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona, 2004</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A25557F6FFA0FFB62277D62FFA3FFB2B" box="[1318,1421,1878,1902]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" rank="species">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB62277D62FFAD6FB28" bold="true" box="[1318,1380,1878,1902]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">comb</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA0FFB62226D62FFA34FB28" bold="true" box="[1399,1414,1878,1902]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">n</emphasis>
.
</taxonomicNameLabel>
Our comparative materials of the latter included a male collected near the type locality of that species (
<figureCitation id="13292A1AFFA0FFB623B3D6EFFA36FBEB" box="[1250,1412,1941,1966]" captionStart="Figures 522525" captionStartId="106.[113,190,1981,2003]" captionTargetBox="[150,1435,241,1931]" captionTargetId="figure-39@106.[127,1460,232,1934]" captionTargetPageId="106" captionText="Figures 522525. Teruelius mahafaliensis. Habitus. Male holotype of G. rossii (522523) and male from near the type locality of T. mahafaliensis (524525), dorsal (522, 524) and ventral (523, 525) views. Scale bar: 10 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143817" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143817/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="16">Figs. 522525</figureCitation>
), and determined material loaned from FMNH including
<specimenCount id="9D14FD16FFA0FFB6220CD6CFFA70FB88" box="[1373,1474,1974,1998]" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" type="adult">two adult</specimenCount>
males. In his description,
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFA0FFB6236ED6AFFA95FBAB" author="LOURENCO, W. R." box="[1087,1319,2005,2030]" journalOrPublisher="Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg" pageId="17" pageNumber="16" pagination="57 - 62" part="16" refId="ref38860" refString="LOURENCO, W. R. 2013 b. A new species of Grosphus Simon, 1880 (Scorpiones, Buthidae) from Central Madagascar. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg, 16 (189): 57 - 62." title="A new species of Grosphus Simon, 1880 (Scorpiones, Buthidae) from Central Madagascar" type="journal article" year="2013">Lourenço (2013b: 59)</bibRefCitation>
compared and contrasted
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA5FFB327B4D708FE8CFACE" authorityName="Lourenco" authorityYear="2013" box="[229,318,1649,1672]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="20" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rossii">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB327B4D708FF4AFACE" box="[229,248,1649,1672]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB32655D708FE8CFACE" box="[260,318,1649,1672]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">rossii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA5FFB3260ED708FE64FACE" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Pocock" baseAuthorityYear="1889" box="[351,470,1648,1672]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="20" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="limbatus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB3260ED708FEDCFACE" box="[351,366,1649,1672]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB3262BD709FE64FACE" box="[378,470,1648,1672]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">limbatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but not to
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA5FFB3251CD708FD4EFACE" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona" baseAuthorityYear="2004" box="[589,764,1648,1672]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="20" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mahafaliensis">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB3251CD708FDEEFACE" box="[589,604,1649,1672]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB32539D709FD4EFACE" box="[616,764,1648,1672]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">mahafaliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. A potential diagnostic difference is the pectinal tooth count (= 28) in
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA5FFB327EAD7C8FEA5FA8E" authorityName="Lourenco" authorityYear="2013" box="[187,279,1713,1736]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="20" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rossii">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB327EAD7C8FF7CFA8E" box="[187,206,1713,1736]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB3278CD7C8FEA5FA8E" box="[221,279,1713,1736]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">rossii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
being lower than the range (3540) reported for male
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA5FFB3279ED7A8FECCFAAE" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona" baseAuthorityYear="2004" box="[207,382,1744,1768]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="20" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mahafaliensis">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB3279ED7A8FF6CFAAE" box="[207,222,1745,1768]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB327BBD7A9FECCFAAE" box="[234,382,1744,1768]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">mahafaliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by Lourenço et al., (2007b: 373, tab. III). However, we examined a male
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA5FFB326BCD788FD2FFB4E" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona" baseAuthorityYear="2004" box="[493,669,1776,1800]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="20" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mahafaliensis">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB326BCD788FE4EFB4E" box="[493,508,1777,1800]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB32558D789FD2FFB4E" box="[521,669,1776,1800]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">mahafaliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
collected near the species type locality with PTC of 2933 (
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). The type locality of
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA5FFB326C5D648FE43FB0E" authorityName="Lourenco" authorityYear="2013" box="[404,497,1841,1864]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="20" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rossii">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB326C5D648FE15FB0E" box="[404,423,1841,1864]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB326E6D648FE43FB0E" box="[439,497,1841,1864]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">rossii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
on the central plateau at ca.
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a. s. l., is in a cooler, more humid zone, quite far from the other records of
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB326C6D608FE14FBCE" box="[407,422,1905,1928]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">T</emphasis>
.
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concentrated on the Mahafaly Plateau, a region of subarid thorn scrub along the southwest coast (ca.
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a.s.l.). It was suggested that
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB32720D6A8FF36FBAE" box="[113,132,2001,2024]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">G</emphasis>
.
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was evidence of microendemism. We take a more conservative position and interpret the very close morphologies of
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB3241ED7E8FCD0FAEE" box="[847,866,1681,1704]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">G</emphasis>
.
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and
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB324B3D7E8FC43FAEE" box="[994,1009,1681,1704]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB324AED7E9FB21FAEE" box="[1023,1171,1680,1704]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">mahafaliensis</emphasis>
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as indicative of a eurytopic species with wider distribution. Broad elevation ranges of&gt;
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are known for some widely distributed scorpions that inhabit varied bioclimatic zones (e.g.,
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB3226AD788FC31FB6E" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">Anuroctonus pococki</emphasis>
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, 300
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a.s.l.,
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;
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB32482D649FB7CFB0E" box="[979,1230,1840,1864]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">Bothriurus burmeisteri</emphasis>
Kraepelin, 1894
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB32461D629FBCFFB2E" box="[816,1149,1872,1896]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">Brachistosternus weijenberghi</emphasis>
(Thorell, 1876),
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3000 m a.s.l.,
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;
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB323F7D609FA70FBCE" box="[1190,1474,1904,1928]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">Compsobuthus maindroni</emphasis>
(Kraepelin, 1901)
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB32345D6E8FB4BFBEE" box="[1044,1273,1936,1960]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">Hottentotta jayakari</emphasis>
(Pocock, 1895)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA5FFB32461D6C9FB34FB8E" authority="Francke, 1980" authorityName="Francke" authorityYear="1980" box="[816,1158,1968,1992]" class="Arachnida" family="Diplocentridae" genus="Nebo" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="20" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="omanensis">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB32461D6C9FC51FB8E" box="[816,995,1968,1992]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">Nebo omanensis</emphasis>
Francke, 1980
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB323EED6C9FA70FB8E" box="[1215,1474,1968,1992]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">Orthochirus glabrifrons</emphasis>
(Kraepelin, 1903)
</taxonomicName>
,
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a.s.l.,
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFA5FFB323E0D6A8FAF0FBAE" author="LOWE, G." box="[1201,1346,2000,2024]" journalOrPublisher="Euscorpius" pageId="20" pageNumber="19" pagination="1 - 23" part="103" refId="ref40812" refString="LOWE, G. 2010 c. Two new species of Hottentotta Birula, 1908 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from northern Oman. Euscorpius, 103: 1 - 23." title="Two new species of Hottentotta Birula, 1908 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from northern Oman" type="journal article" year="2010">Lowe, 2010c</bibRefCitation>
). The status of
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB227C0D192FF16FD44" box="[145,164,235,258]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB227E5D192FF5CFD44" box="[180,238,235,258]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">rossii</emphasis>
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should be reviewed when topotypic females are collected and their basal pectinal tooth compared to that of
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB225BFD072FD4FFD64" box="[750,765,267,290]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB22720D052FEB7FD05" box="[113,261,299,323]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">mahafaliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, as this is a more reliable diagnostic character in
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB227DCD032FF5DFD25" box="[141,239,331,355]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">Teruelius</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB227A7D032FEACFD25" bold="true" box="[246,286,331,355]" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">gen</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB2267AD032FE88FD25" bold="true" box="[299,314,331,355]" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">n</emphasis>
.
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<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFA3FFB52720D6D8FEACFBB6" blockId="18.[113,1474,1953,2032]" pageId="18" pageNumber="17">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA3FFB52720D6D8FEB0FBF0" bold="true" box="[113,258,1953,1975]" pageId="18" pageNumber="17">Figures 2829</emphasis>
. Variation in pectinal tooth count (PTC) in
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA3FFB525E2D6D8FCBDFBF0" authorityName="Vachon" authorityYear="1940" box="[691,783,1953,1974]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="18" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA3FFB525E2D6D8FCBDFBF0" box="[691,783,1953,1974]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="17">Grosphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA3FFB5244FD6D8FC2EFBF0" authorityName="Lourenco" authorityYear="1995" box="[798,924,1953,1974]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Neogrosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="18" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA3FFB5244FD6D8FC2EFBF0" box="[798,924,1953,1974]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="17">Neogrosphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA3FFB5249FD6D8FB94FBF0" box="[974,1062,1953,1974]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="17">Teruelius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA3FFB5237FD6D8FBE0FBF0" bold="true" box="[1070,1106,1953,1974]" pageId="18" pageNumber="17">gen</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA3FFB52331D6D8FBDFFBF0" bold="true" box="[1120,1133,1953,1974]" pageId="18" pageNumber="17">n</emphasis>
.
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Horizontal histograms comparing PTC in males (28), and females (29) of
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA3FFB526A2D6C7FDFDFB95" authorityName="Vachon" authorityYear="1940" box="[499,591,1982,2003]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="18" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA3FFB526A2D6C7FDFDFB95" box="[499,591,1982,2003]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="17">Grosphus</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA3FFB5250DD6C7FD68FB95" box="[604,730,1982,2003]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="17">Neogrosphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA3FFB5245BD6C7FCD0FB95" box="[778,866,1982,2003]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="17">Teruelius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A25557F6FFA3FFB52438D6C7FC1FFB95" box="[873,941,1982,2003]" pageId="18" pageNumber="17" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA3FFB52438D6C7FC3FFB95" bold="true" box="[873,909,1982,2003]" pageId="18" pageNumber="17">gen</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA3FFB524C8D6C7FC14FB95" bold="true" box="[921,934,1982,2003]" pageId="18" pageNumber="17">n</emphasis>
.
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Error bars indicate ranges (minimum, maximum), bars mid-range values.
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<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFA2FFB42720D794FCFFFBAF" blockId="19.[113,1474,1773,2025]" pageId="19" pageNumber="18">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA2FFB42720D794FEB3FB44" bold="true" box="[113,257,1773,1795]" pageId="19" pageNumber="18">Figures 3035</emphasis>
. Variation in pectinal tooth count (PTC) in
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA2FFB425F8D794FCB7FB44" authorityName="Vachon" authorityYear="1940" box="[681,773,1773,1794]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="19" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA2FFB425F8D794FCB7FB44" box="[681,773,1773,1794]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="18">Grosphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA2FFB42443D794FC22FB44" authorityName="Lourenco" authorityYear="1995" box="[786,912,1773,1794]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Neogrosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="19" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA2FFB42443D794FC22FB44" box="[786,912,1773,1794]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="18">Neogrosphus</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA2FFB42491D794FBAAFB44" box="[960,1048,1773,1794]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="18">Teruelius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA2FFB4234ED794FBF1FB44" bold="true" box="[1055,1091,1773,1794]" pageId="19" pageNumber="18">gen</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA2FFB42301D794FBEFFB44" bold="true" box="[1104,1117,1773,1794]" pageId="19" pageNumber="18">n</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA2FFB4233BD794FB4BFB44" bold="true" box="[1130,1273,1773,1795]" pageId="19" pageNumber="18">Figures 3031</emphasis>
. Logarithmic scatter plots showing scaling of PTC vs. carapace length in males (30), and females (31) of
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<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA2FFB424CDD673FC4AFB59" box="[924,1016,1802,1823]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="18">Grosphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA2FFB42355D673FB30FB59" authorityName="Lourenco" authorityYear="1995" box="[1028,1154,1802,1823]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Neogrosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="19" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA2FFB42355D673FB30FB59" box="[1028,1154,1802,1823]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="18">Neogrosphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA2FFB423E1D673FABAFB59" authority="Lowe &amp; Kovařík, 2019" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" box="[1200,1288,1802,1823]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="19" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus" status="gen. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA2FFB423E1D673FABAFB59" box="[1200,1288,1802,1823]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="18">Teruelius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A25557F6FFA2FFB4225ED673FAE0FB59" box="[1295,1362,1802,1823]" pageId="19" pageNumber="18" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA2FFB4225ED673FA81FB59" bold="true" box="[1295,1331,1802,1823]" pageId="19" pageNumber="18">gen</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA2FFB4226ED673FAFEFB59" bold="true" box="[1343,1356,1802,1823]" pageId="19" pageNumber="18">n</emphasis>
.
</taxonomicNameLabel>
Color lines are least squares linear regression fits of scaling trends for the different genera.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA2FFB424D9D65FFBABFB7D" bold="true" box="[904,1049,1830,1852]" pageId="19" pageNumber="18">Figures 3233</emphasis>
. Logarithmic scatter plots showing scaling of PTC vs. carapace length in Figs. 3031 superposed upon overall scaling trends for a larger sample of male (32) and female (33) buthids including both α and β trichobothrial configurations (gray symbols; 1055♂, 1046♀). Dark lines: least squares linear regression fits of scaling trends for larger sample of buthids.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA2FFB42689D604FDDBFBD4" bold="true" box="[472,617,1917,1939]" pageId="19" pageNumber="18">Figures 3435</emphasis>
. Logarithmic scatter plots showing scaling of PTC vs. carapace length in Figs. 3031 superposed upon overall scaling trends for a larger sample of male (34) and female (35) α-buthids restricted to α trichobothrial configurations (gray symbols; 445♂, 371♀). Dark lines: least squares linear regression fits of scaling trends for α-buthids. Numbers: slopes of regression lines (= allometric exponents). Purple symbols and lines: outgroup
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA2FFB42592D6AAFCF5FBAE" authorityName="Kraepelin" authorityYear="1911" box="[707,839,2003,2024]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Pseudolychas" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="19" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA2FFB42592D6AAFCF5FBAE" box="[707,839,2003,2024]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="18">Pseudolychas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption id="DF6D6617FFA5FFB32720D415FCCEFA0A" ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143628" ID-Zenodo-Dep="7143628" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7143628/files/figure.png" pageId="20" pageNumber="19" startId="20.[113,190,1388,1410]" targetBox="[121,1471,246,1361]" targetPageId="20">
<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFA5FFB32720D415FCCEFA0A" blockId="20.[113,1474,1388,1612]" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB32720D415FF48F9C4" bold="true" box="[113,250,1388,1410]" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">Figures 3639</emphasis>
. Comparative biometrics of female basal pectinal tooth and hemispermatophore trunk of
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA5FFB32307D414FB00F9C4" authorityName="Vachon" authorityYear="1940" box="[1110,1202,1389,1410]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="20" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB32307D414FB00F9C4" box="[1110,1202,1389,1410]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">Grosphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA5FFB323EFD414FA8EF9C4" authorityName="Lourenco" authorityYear="1995" box="[1214,1340,1389,1410]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Neogrosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="20" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB323EFD414FA8EF9C4" box="[1214,1340,1389,1410]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">Neogrosphus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA5FFB3223BD414FA70F9C4" authority="Lowe &amp; Kovařík, 2019" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" box="[1386,1474,1389,1410]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="20" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus" status="gen. nov.">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB3223BD414FA70F9C4" box="[1386,1474,1389,1410]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">Teruelius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A25557F6FFA5FFB32720D4F3FF0AF9D9" box="[113,184,1418,1439]" pageId="20" pageNumber="19" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB32720D4F3FF27F9D9" bold="true" box="[113,149,1418,1439]" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">gen</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB327F4D4F3FF00F9D9" bold="true" box="[165,178,1418,1439]" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">n</emphasis>
.
</taxonomicNameLabel>
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB32790D4F0FEE6F9D8" bold="true" box="[193,340,1417,1439]" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">Figures 3637</emphasis>
. Logarithmic scatter plots showing scaling of length of female basal pectinal tooth vs. carapace length (36), and hemispermatophore trunk length vs. carapace length (37). Color lines: least squares linear regression fits of scaling trends for the different genera.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA5FFB327EFD4BAFEFFF99E" bold="true" box="[190,333,1475,1497]" pageId="20" pageNumber="19">Figures 3839</emphasis>
. Logarithmic scatter plots of female basal pectinal tooth length vs. hemispermatophore trunk length (38), and the ratio of basal pectinal tooth length/ hemispermatophore trunk length (%) vs. hemispermatophore trunk length, showing fraction of trunk spanned by the female tooth (39). Female basal pectinal tooth length measured as chord length, from more proximal corner (along comb axis) at base of tooth, to more distal corner (along comb axis) at tip of tooth. Trunk length measured from proximal edge of basal lobe to pedicel (foot). Color lines: least squares linear regression fits of scaling trends for the different genera.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="8BAD369FFFA4FFB227F0D012FDFCF845" blockId="21.[113,771,235,1027]" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">
Another potential synonym of
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA4FFB22556D012FD0DFDC5" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona" baseAuthorityYear="2004" box="[519,703,363,387]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="21" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mahafaliensis">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB22556D012FDA4FDC4" box="[519,534,363,386]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB2257AD012FD0DFDC5" box="[555,703,363,387]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">mahafaliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA4FFB225BFD012FE00FDE5" authority="(Lourenco, 2014)" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco" baseAuthorityYear="2014" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="21" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magalieae">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB225BFD012FD4FFDC4" box="[750,765,363,386]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB22720D0F2FF52FDE5" box="[113,224,395,419]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">magalieae</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFA4FFB227A4D0F2FE18FDE5" author="LOURENCO, W. R." box="[245,426,395,419]" journalOrPublisher="Zoosystema" pageId="21" pageNumber="20" pagination="631 - 645" part="36" refId="ref38903" refString="LOURENCO, W. R. 2014. The genus Grosphus Simon, 1880 in South-Western Madagascar, with the description of a new species (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Zoosystema, 36 (3): 631 - 645." title="The genus Grosphus Simon, 1880 in South-Western Madagascar, with the description of a new species (Scorpiones, Buthidae)" type="journal article" year="2014">Lourenço, 2014</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
. According to its description, the morphometrics, coloration, and meristics of
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA4FFB22526D0D2FCB1FD85" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco" baseAuthorityYear="2014" box="[631,771,427,451]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="21" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magalieae">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB22526D0D2FD34FD84" box="[631,646,427,450]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB225C5D0D2FCB1FD85" box="[660,771,427,451]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">magalieae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are very close to those of
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA4FFB226DDD0B2FD8FFDA5" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona" baseAuthorityYear="2004" box="[396,573,459,483]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="21" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mahafaliensis">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB226DDD0B2FE29FDA4" box="[396,411,459,482]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB226F8D0B2FD8FFDA5" box="[425,573,459,483]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">mahafaliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The type locality of Cap Saint Marie (
<typeStatus id="54A9883DFFA4FFB2261ED092FE1CFE45" box="[335,430,491,515]" pageId="21" pageNumber="20" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
male as only known specimen) lies on the southwestern coast in the same bioclimatic region as the latter species.
<bibRefCitation id="EF834B6EFFA4FFB22609D352FDFAFE05" author="LOURENCO, W. R." box="[344,584,555,579]" journalOrPublisher="Zoosystema" pageId="21" pageNumber="20" pagination="631 - 645" part="36" refId="ref38903" refString="LOURENCO, W. R. 2014. The genus Grosphus Simon, 1880 in South-Western Madagascar, with the description of a new species (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Zoosystema, 36 (3): 631 - 645." title="The genus Grosphus Simon, 1880 in South-Western Madagascar, with the description of a new species (Scorpiones, Buthidae)" type="journal article" year="2014">Lourenço (2014: 633)</bibRefCitation>
did not compare
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA4FFB22720D332FEB5FE25" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco" baseAuthorityYear="2014" box="[113,263,587,611]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="21" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magalieae">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB22720D332FF32FE24" box="[113,128,587,610]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB227C9D332FEB5FE25" box="[152,263,587,611]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">magalieae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA4FFB2266FD332FE4BFE25" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona" baseAuthorityYear="2004" box="[318,505,587,611]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="21" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mahafaliensis">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB2266FD332FEFFFE24" box="[318,333,587,610]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB22634D332FE4BFE25" box="[357,505,587,611]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">mahafaliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but claimed that the most closely related species was
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA4FFB226BAD312FDF9FEC4" authorityName="Lourenco" authorityYear="2013" box="[491,587,619,642]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="21" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rossii">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB226BAD312FE4CFEC4" box="[491,510,619,642]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB22540D312FDF9FEC4" box="[529,587,619,642]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">rossii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, which we here synonymize under
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA4FFB22666D3F2FE57FEE5" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona" baseAuthorityYear="2004" box="[311,485,651,675]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="21" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mahafaliensis">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB22666D3F2FEF4FEE4" box="[311,326,651,674]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB22600D3F2FE57FEE5" box="[337,485,651,675]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">mahafaliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The diagnostic differences between
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA4FFB22784D3D2FED6FE85" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco" baseAuthorityYear="2014" box="[213,356,683,707]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="21" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magalieae">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB22784D3D2FF56FE84" box="[213,228,683,706]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB227A4D3D2FED6FE85" box="[245,356,683,707]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">magalieae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA4FFB226CED3D2FE4CFE84" authorityName="Lourenco" authorityYear="2013" box="[415,510,683,706]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Grosphus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="21" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rossii">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB226CED3D2FE00FE84" box="[415,434,683,706]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB22695D3D2FE4CFE84" box="[452,510,683,706]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">rossii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are not compelling: (i) pectines with 36 vs. 28 teeth (a range of variation allowed here for
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA4FFB22782D392FE35FF45" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco, Goodman &amp; Ramilijaona" baseAuthorityYear="2004" box="[211,391,747,771]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="21" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mahafaliensis">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB22782D392FF50FF44" box="[211,226,747,770]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB227A2D392FE35FF45" box="[243,391,747,771]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">mahafaliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
); (ii) pedipalp fingers with 1213 vs. 1212 granule rows (overlapping counts); and (iii) overall paler coloration (differences in color shade are not uncommon for different populations of a species inhabiting areas with different substrates). We provisionally list this species, until it can be critically evaluated by study of more material and analysis of variation. The female of
<taxonomicName id="4C124D1CFFA4FFB226A1D2D2FDC9FF85" authorityName="Lowe &amp; Kovařík" authorityYear="2019" baseAuthorityName="Lourenco" baseAuthorityYear="2014" box="[496,635,939,963]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Teruelius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="21" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magalieae">
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB226A1D2D2FE4DFF84" box="[496,511,939,962]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">T</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B966EA8DFFA4FFB2255DD2D2FDC9FF85" box="[524,635,939,963]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="20">magalieae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is unknown, and the species might be better diagnosed if the female basal pectinal tooth were determined to be unique.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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