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<paragraph id="8BB441447A556A7DFF435ED4FDBB47B1" blockId="8.[192,802,1211,1265]" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">ETYMOLOGY. The species is named in honor of Brutus, the famous Czech rock musical group.</paragraph>
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DISTRIBUTION.
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DIAGNOSIS. Total length of adult males
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, near to
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. Male with fingers proximally more twisted than female. Pedipalp chela length/width ratio
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females. Telotarsus III ventral setation represented by short and strong spiniform setae. Pedal spur of legs with solitary setae only.
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DESCRIPTION. The total length of adult males
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. Male has the fingers proximally a little more twisted than female. Female has longer and slightly narrower chela of pedipalps. Chelicerae yellow, without reticulation, the tips of teeth on cheliceral fingers are black. For measurements see tables 1 and 45.
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COLORATION (
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). The carapace and tergites are yellowish brown, strongly black pigmented. The metasoma, telson, pedipalps and legs are yellowish brown. The metasoma ventral, mainly segment V black pigmented.
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MESOSOMA AND CARAPACE (
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). The carapace is carinate and unevenly covered by granules of varying size; much of the granulation is fine, but some granules are larger and distinctly rounded. Tergites IVI bear three carinae and are granulated, with some intercarinal granules small and others larger and rounded. Tergite VII is pentacarinate. The pectinal tooth count is
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males,
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females. The pectinal marginal tips extend to about end of the sixth sternite in males and third of the sixth sternite in females. The pectines have three marginal lamellae and sixth to eight middle lamellae. The lamellae bear numerous long setae, each fulcrum with three to five setae. All sternites are smooth and sparsely hirsute. The seventh sternite bears four well marked granulate carinae. The other sternites bear two furrows.
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PEDIPALPS (
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). The pedipalps are sparsely hirsute and smooth. The femur bears four to five granulated carinae, the middle carina on internal surface could be incomplete indicated by several strong denticles. The patella bears eight carinae from which internal in both sexes and dorsal in females are granulated. The chela is without carinae. The movable fingers of pedipalps bear 13 cutting rows of denticles, every with external and internal denticles present, and five terminal denticles.
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LEGS (
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). The tarsomeres bear two rows of short and strong spiniform setae on the ventral surface and numerous macrosetae on the other surfaces. Pedal spur of legs with solitary setae only. Femur bears only several macrosetae. Femur and patella with carinae well developed. Tibial spurs present and long on third and fourth legs and absent in the other legs.
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METASOMA AND TELSON (
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,
<figureCitation id="13305DC17A556A7DFA875D4FFA864477" box="[1284,1382,1824,1847]" captionStart="Figures 181188" captionStartId="39.[192,278,1168,1192]" captionTargetBox="[196,1430,203,1134]" captionTargetId="figure-59@39.[192,1437,192,1139]" captionTargetPageId="39" captionText="Figures 181188: Figures 181182: Mesobuthus kreuzbergi sp. n., metasoma V and telson lateral of male (181) and female (182). Figures 183188: Mesobuthus brutus sp. n., metasoma V and telson lateral of male holotype (183) and female paratype (184), and left legs IIV, retrolateral aspect of male holotype (185188)." pageId="8" pageNumber="7">183184</figureCitation>
). All metasomal segments are only very sparsely hirsute. The metasomal segment I with 10 carinae, IIIII with 8 carinae but other two latero median carinae are indicated by incomplete row of denticles, IV with 8 carinae, and V with 5 carinae. All carinae with consistent denticles, larger denticles are present in ventral carinae on segment IIII. The dorsal surface of all segments is smooth in the middle and bumpy on margins. Other surfaces are bumpy or smooth with several solitary granules. Ventrolateral carinae of metasomal segment V posteriorly with several large lobated denticles. The telson is only sparsely hirsute, rather elongate, bumpy and smooth.
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<paragraph id="8BB441447A546A7CFF435C9AFEDF447E" blockId="9.[192,1440,1781,1854]" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">
<emphasis id="B97F9D567A546A7CFF435C9AFE8A444D" bold="true" box="[192,362,1781,1805]" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">Figures 2125:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B97F9D567A546A7CFEF75C98FDB8444C" box="[372,600,1783,1804]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">Mesobuthus caucasicus</emphasis>
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, holotype female. Dorsal (21) and ventral (22) views. Metasoma V and telson lateral (23), and metasoma and telson, lateral (24) and dorsal (25) views. The original labels are also included in the plate. Scale bar: 10 mm (2122).
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<paragraph id="8BB441447A576A7FFF43587DFEEF4169" blockId="10.[192,271,530,553]" box="[192,271,530,553]" pageId="10" pageNumber="9">NOTES.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB441447A576A7FFF5E5826FD454077" blockId="10.[221,802,585,823]" pageId="10" pageNumber="9">
<taxonomicName id="4C0B3AC77A576A7FFF5E5826FE4C4120" authority="Fet &amp; Kovařík &amp; Gantenbein &amp; Kaiser &amp; Stewart &amp; Graham, 2018" authorityName="Fet &amp; Kovařík &amp; Gantenbein &amp; Kaiser &amp; Stewart &amp; Graham" authorityYear="2018" box="[221,428,585,608]" class="Arachnida" family="Buthidae" genus="Mesobuthus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Scorpiones" pageId="10" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brutus" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B97F9D567A576A7FFF5E5826FE4C4120" box="[221,428,585,608]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="9">Mesobuthus brutus</emphasis>
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is the only species studied by us for which no DNA data are yet available, therefore we cannot place it into our phylogeny. The species is currently known only from the
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Mountains of the northern
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, south from the Caspian Sea, a biogeographic transition zone between the Caucasus to the west (where
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<emphasis id="B97F9D567A576A7FFDAD596EFD2C4058" box="[558,716,769,792]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="9">M. caucasicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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is found) and the Kopetdagh Mts. to the east.
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