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Two new species of the remarkable scorpion genus Megacormus Karsch, 1881 (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae)

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Teruel, Rolando, Kovařík, František, Lowe, Graeme, Šťáhlavský, František (2023): Two new species of the remarkable scorpion genus Megacormus Karsch, 1881 (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae). Euscorpius 375: 1-22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8222206

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