Thursday, July 27, 2017

[Arachnida • 2017] Megacormus xichu • A New Species of Megacormus (Scorpiones, Euscorpiidae) from An Oak-Pine Forest in Guanajuato, México with An Identification Key to the Species in the Genus


Megacormus xichu
González-Santillán, González-Ruiz & Escobedo-Morales, 2017


Abstract

The fifth species of the genus, Megacormus xichu sp. nov., is described and compared to the other species. An identification key to these species as well as a distributional map with localities taken from the literature are provided.

Keywords: Scorpiones, Scorpion, Xichú, distributional map, literature, Charco Azul




Edmundo González-Santillán, Juan Manuel González-Ruiz and Luis A. Escobedo-Morales. 2017. A New Species of Megacormus (Scorpiones, Euscorpiidae) from An Oak-Pine Forest in Guanajuato, México with An Identification Key to the Species in the Genus.
 Zootaxa. 4299(2); 221–237.  DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.3