A new species of Bothriurus from Brazil

 

Wilson Lourenco has recently published a new species of Bothriurus Peters, 1861 from the State of Pará in Brazil.

Bothriurus andorinhas Lourenco, 2023

Abstract:
A new species Bothriurus andorinhas n. sp. is described from an area of transition between savanna-like formations and wet-forests in the south of the state of Pará in Brazil. The new species can be associated with other species of what can be defined as the Bothriurus rochai complex. The description of this new species attests once again about the existence of micro-endemic populations within different groups of Bothriurus. Comments are proposed on some ecological particularities of the micro-habitat of the new taxon and about the region where the new species was discovered in the state of Pará.

Reference:
Lourenco WR. A new species of Bothriurus Peters (Scorpiones: Bothriuridae) from ‘Parque Estadual da Serra dos Martírios/Andorinhas’ in the State of Pará, Brazil. Faunitaxys. 2023;11(4):1-7. [Open Access]

Thanks to Nicolas Machiavel for sending me this article!

Family Bothriruidae