Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-2015
Abstract
A new scorpion species, Euscorpius drenskii sp. nov., is described from the Western Rhodope Mts. in southern Bulgaria. It is characterized by an oligotrichous trichobothrial pattern, which shows a conspicuous loss of one trichobothrium in the external median patellar series (em = 3), also observed in E. carpathicus (Linnaeus, 1767) and the subgenus Alpiscorpius Gantenbein, Fet, Largiadèr & Scholl, 1999. Phylogenetic analysis of 16S rDNA marker sequences does not show any close relationship between these three groups, suggesting that the observed loss of a trichobothrium is an independent event.
Recommended Citation
Tropea, G., Fet, V., Parmakelis, A., Kotsakiozi, P. & I. Stathi. 2015. A new species of Euscorpius (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) from southern Bulgaria. Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 49: 10-20.
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Arachnology Letters is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online and print, rapidly produced journal focusing on faunistics, ecology and taxonomy of Arachnida (excl. Acari) in Central Europe. Arachnology Letters is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
doi: 10.5431/aramit4902