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1 March 2015 Two New Species of Euscorpiops Vachon, 1980 from Thailand and Myanmar (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae: Scorpiopinae)
František Kovařík, Ondřej Košulič, František Šťáhlavský, Jana Plíšková, Wuttipong Dongkhamfu, Prasit Wongprom
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Abstract

Euscorpiops artemisae sp. nov. from Myanmar and Euscorpiops orioni sp. nov. from Thailand are described and compared with other species of the genus Euscorpiops Vachon, 1980. A key to the species of Euscorpiops is provided. Sexual dimorphism is present, as males of some species have a narrower pedipalp chela than females, while in other species the shape of the chela is the same in both sexes. Males of both new species have the pedipalp chela very narrow, in the male holotype of E. artemisae sp. nov. the chela length to width ratio is 4.13 and in the male holotype of E. orioni sp. nov. it is 4.58. In addition to morphological analysis, we describe also the karyotype of male holotype and paratype of E. orioni sp. nov. Both analyzed specimens have achiasmatic meiosis and the same number of chromosomes (2n=103) with predominance of acrocentric chromosomes gradually decreasing in size. During the first meiotic division we observed one trivalent in both males. This type of multivalent indicates centric fusion or fissions that may cause the differentiation of the karyotypes within the genus Euscorpiops.

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František Kovařík, Ondřej Košulič, František Šťáhlavský, Jana Plíšková, Wuttipong Dongkhamfu, and Prasit Wongprom "Two New Species of Euscorpiops Vachon, 1980 from Thailand and Myanmar (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae: Scorpiopinae)," Annales Zoologici 65(1), 109-122, (1 March 2015). https://doi.org/10.3161/00034541ANZ2015.65.1.009
Received: 20 May 2014; Accepted: 1 October 2014; Published: 1 March 2015
KEYWORDS
Arachnida
description
Euscorpiidae
karyotype
Oriental Region
Scorpiones
Southeast Asia
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