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Issue: Vol. 1260 No. 1: 14 Jul. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-07-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1260.1.2
Page range: 27–35
Abstract views: 60
PDF downloaded: 4

Description of the male of Tityus martinpaechi Lourenço, 2001 (Scorpiones, Buthidae)

Laboratório de Artrópodes, Instituto Butantan, Avenida Vital Brazil, 1500 – São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
Laboratório de Artrópodes, Instituto Butantan, Avenida Vital Brazil, 1500 – São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
Département de Systématique et Évolution, USM 0602 – CP 53, Section Arthropodes (Arachnologie), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 61, rue de Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
Scorpiones

Abstract

Tityus martinpaechi Lourenço, 2001 was described based on a single adult female collected in the state of Ceará, Brazil. Subsequently, several scorpions of the genus Tityus were collected in the Chapada de Ibiapaba, Ceará, and sent to the Instituto Butantan in São Paulo, Brazil. One female and one male of these scorpions were identified as belonging to the species T. martinpaechi. Since the male of this species is yet unknown, it is described in this paper.

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