Redescription of Plesiochactas mitchelli (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae): a rare scorpion from Central America

Kaleb Zárate-Gálvez; Oscar F. Francke

doi:10.1636/Ha09-02.1

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Kaleb Zárate-Gálvez,¹ Oscar F. Francke²

¹Colección de Arácnidos, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas. Libramiento Norte Poniente s/n, Colonia Lajas Maciel, C.P. 29039. Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México kalebzg7@gmail.com
²Colección Nacional de Arácnidos, Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-153, Ciudad Universitaria, México, D.F. 04510, México

Abstract

Plesiochactas mitchelli Soleglad 1976 was originally described from a juvenile female collected in “Guatemala” before 1902. The species is redescribed on the basis of an adult female from a specific locality in the state of Chiapas; it is the first record of this species from México.

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Kaleb Zárate-Gálvez and Oscar F. Francke "Redescription of Plesiochactas mitchelli (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae): a rare scorpion from Central America," The Journal of Arachnology 37(3), 338-345, (1 December 2009). https://doi.org/10.1636/Ha09-02.1

Received: 12 January 2009; Published: 1 December 2009

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