Luis de Armas and Alex Cubas-Rodríguez have recently described a new species of Centruroides Marx, 1890 (Buthidae) from Guanaja, Islas de la Bahía, Honduras.
Centruroides terueli de Armas & Cubas-Rodriguez, 2023
Abstract:
A new species belonging to the species-group Centruroides gracilis is described from Guanaja Island, Islas de la Bahía, in the Honduran Caribbean, on the basis of an adult female. Because of its dorsal pattern it was misidentified as C. caribbeanus Teruel & Myers, 2017, from which it differs by having the metasomal segments more elongate, pedipalp hands with carinae more developed, sternites immaculate (profusely variegated with dark brown in C. caribbeanus) and a shorter aculeus. This is the third species of this genus recorded from the Islas de la Bahía archipelago and the second endemic scorpion known from the area.
Reference:
De Armas LF, Cubas-Rodriguez AM. Una especie nueva de Centruroides (Scorpiones: Buthidae) de Guanaja, Islas de la Bahia, Honduras. Revista Iberica de Arachnologia. 2023(43):81-5. [Full text available from author]
Thanks to Alex Cubas-Rodríguez for sending me their article.
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