title: Troglobitic scorpions: a new genus and species from Brazil.
abstract: A new genus and species of troglobitic buthid scorpion are described on the basis of a single specimen collected in Brazil. This is the first cavernicolous scorpion ever found in Brazil, and only the second to be found in South America. Some considerations on troglobitic scorpions are proposed.
authors.affiliation: Département de systématique et evolution, USM 0602, section Arthropodes (Arachnologie), Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 75005 Paris, France. arachne@mnhn.fr
authors.forename: Wilson R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Lourenço
authors.forename: Renner Luiz Cerqueira
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Baptista
authors.forename: Alessandro Ponce
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: de Leão Giupponi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D012605:Scorpions / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*