Two new species of Chiromachetes (Scorpiones: Hormuridae) from the northern Western Ghats, India

Authors

• Shauri Sulakhe
• Shubhankar Deshpande
• Nikhil Dandekar
• Makarand Ketkar
• Gaurang Gowande
• Anand Padhye
• Deshabhushan Bastawade

Abstract

Two new species of Chiromachetes Pocock, 1899 (Hormuridae) are described from the northern Western Ghats of India using an integrated taxonomic approach. Chiromachetes parakrami sp. n. and C. ramdasswamii sp. n. are closely related and differ from each other and C. sahyadriensis by morphological features and raw genetic divergence of 7.9–9.4 %.

Recommended Citation

Sulakhe, Shauri; Deshpande, Shubhankar; Dandekar, Nikhil; Ketkar, Makarand; Gowande, Gaurang; Padhye, Anand; and Bastawade, Deshabhushan (2020) "Two new species of Chiromachetes (Scorpiones: Hormuridae) from the northern Western Ghats, India," Euscorpius: Vol. 2020: Iss. 320, Article 1.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33470/1536-9307.1351
Available at: https://mds.marshall.edu/euscorpius/vol2020/iss320/1