DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.18590/euscorpius.2019.vol2019.iss239.1
Abstract
The Central American scorpion Centruroides mahnerti Lourenço, 1983, was described on the basis of three female specimens (holotype and paratypes) from Momotombo Volcano, Nicaragua. Almost two decades later, it was synonymized under Centruroides koesteri Kraepelin, 1911 by Armas and Maes, without examination of the type specimen; but Teruel and Stockwell posteriorly argued that description and figures given for C. mahnerti are also similarly referable to juveniles of C. edwardsii (Gervais, 1843). Now, an evaluation of the holotype of C. mahnerti has definitively shown that it is a subadult female of C. koesteri. For the first time, photographs of the holotype of C. mahnerti are presented.
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Recommended Citation
de Armas, L. F. 2019 . Identity of the Central American scorpion Centruroides mahnerti Lourenço, 1983 (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Euscorpius, No. 293: 1-4.
