[A new species of Tityus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Turimiquire, Venezuela].
We describe a new species of Buthid scorpion, Tityus quirogae, from the Turimiquire mountains, eastern side of the La Costa range, Monagas and Sucre States, Venezuela. It is morphologically similar to T. nematochirus and T. meridanus. It differs from these species in the distribution of the dorsal femoral trichobothria and in the following combination of characters: (1) I caudal segment with two parallel ventral keels. Caudal segments II to IV with ventral keels that are double in the extremes of the segments and single in the middle, (2) noticeable sexual dimorphism, especially in pedipalp shape; the male chelae are markedly thin and long, (3) number of pectineous teeth (male: 18 in each pecten; female: 18 in the right pecten and 19 in the left one), and (4) number of denticle rows in the movable finger of the right chela (16 in both sexes). T. quirogae is the first species of this genus, in the Northeastern region of Venezuela, with thin and elongated pedipalps.
De Sousa
Leonardo
L
Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Oriente, Núcleo de Anzoátegui, Apartado Postal 4774, Puerto La Cruz 6023, Estado Anzoátegui, Venezuela. leonardodesousa@yahoo.com
Manzanilla
Jesús
J
Parrilla-Alvarez
Pedro
P
D000818:Animals; D019353:Endemic Diseases; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011156:Population Density; D065008:Scorpion Stings / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012605:Scorpions / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D013045:Species Specificity; D014687:Venezuela / Q000453:epidemiology