Two new species from Venezuela and Brazil

Rojas-Runjaic, Borges & Armas have described the following new species from northeastern Venezuela:

Opisthacanthus brevicauda Rojas-Runjaic, Borges & Armas, 2008 (Hemiscorpiidae)

This scorpion has previously been misidentified as O. elatus (Gervais, 1844)

Lourenco has described a new Tityus species from the "Parque Nacional do Pico da Neblina" region in Brazil/Venezuela:

Tityus neblina Lourenco, 2008 (Buthidae).

References:
Rojas-Runjaic FJM, Borges A, de Armas LF. Nueva especie de Opisthacanthus Peters, 1861 (Scorpiones, Hemiscorpiidae) de la Sierra de Perija, Venezuela, basada en criteros morfologicos y moleculares. Boletin Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa. 2008(43):49-59.

Lourenco WR. Description of Tityus (Atreus) neblina sp. n. (Scorpiones, Buthidae), from the "Parque Nacional do Pico da Neblina", in Brazil/Venezuela, with comments on some related species. Boletin Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa. 2008(43):75-9.

Family Buthidae
Family Hemiscorpiidae