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Issue: Vol. 1302 No. 1: 24 Aug. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-08-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1302.1.2
Page range: 21–30
Abstract views: 60
PDF downloaded: 2

A new troglobitic Pseudouroctonus Stahnke (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae) from northern México

Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-153, México D. F. 04510, MEXICO
Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, 875 Howard Street, San Francisco, California 94103-3009, USA
Scorpiones Scorpion troglobites caves

Abstract

Pseudouroctonus sprousei sp. nov., from El Abra cave, in Coahuila, México, is described from a single adult male. It is most similar to Pseudouroctonus reddelli (Gertsch and Soleglad), a wellknown troglophile from Texas and Coahuila, which is also the type species for the genus Pseudouroctonus Stahnke.

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