Parts of Europe still seem to be an inexhaustible source of new Euscorpius Thorell, 1876 (Euscorpiidae) species. Gioele Tropea and co-workers have recently published a new article describing a new species from Bulgaria and from Greece based on morphological and molecular evidence.
Euscorpius petaberoni Tropea, Fet, Parmakelis & Stathi, 2024 (Known only from Kovachevitsa in the Western Rhodope Mountains in Bulgaria)
Euscorpius trichasi Tropea, Fet, Parmakelis & Stathi, 2024 (Known only from the Mt. Olympos massif in Thessaly in Greece)
Abstract:
Two scorpion species, Euscorpius petarberoni sp. n. (Bulgaria) and E. trichasi sp. n. (Greece), are described based on morphological and molecular evidence; E. petarberoni sp. n. is related to E. popovi Tropea et al., 2015, E. drenskii Tropea et al., 2015, and E. thracicus Kovařík et al., 2020, while E. trichasi sp. n. is related to E. kabateki Kovařík & Šťáhlavský, 2020.
Reference:
Tropea G, Fet V, Parmakelis A, Stathi I. Two New Species of Euscorpius (Scorpiones, Euscorpiidae) from Bulgaria and Greece. Zoodiversity. 2024;58(1):1-18. [Open Access]
Thanks to Victor Fet and Siegfried Huber for informing me about this article!
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