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Orthochirus Karsch 1892
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Orthochirus Karsch, 1892
Orthochirus: Vachon, 1974: 910, 936; Tikader & Bastawade, 1983: 113; Sissom, 1990: 102; Kovařík, 1996: 177; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 193; Fet E. et al., 2003: 69; Kovařík, 2004: 4.
Type species: Orthodactylus olivaceus Karsch, 1881 = Orthochirus scrobiculosus (Grube, 1873).
Diagnosis: Dorsal trichobothria of femur arranged in beta-configuration. Tibial spurs present on legs III and IV. Movable fingers of pedipalps with 7–10 rows of granules and 2–5 distal granules. Carapace, in lateral view, distinctly inclined downward from median eyes to anterior margin. Metasomal segments I to III with carinae. Metasomal segments IV and V ventrally punctate.
Notes
Published as part of Zambre, Amod M., Mirza, Zeeshan A., Sanap, Rajesh V., Upadhye, Raman & Maqsood Javed, S. M., 2011, A new species of Orthochirus Karsch, 1892 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Maharashtra, India, pp. 1-12 in Euscorpius 107 (107) on pages 1-2, DOI: 10.18590/euscorpius.2011.vol2011.iss107.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4649109
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Karsch
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Scorpiones
- Family
- Buthidae
- Genus
- Orthochirus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Orthochirus Karsch, 1892 sec. Zambre, Mirza, Sanap, Upadhye & Javed, 2011
References
- VACHON, M. 1974. Etude des caracteres utilises pour classer les familles et les genres de Scorpions (Arachnides). 1. La trichobothriotaxie en arachnologie. Sigles trichobothriaux et types de trichobothriotaxie chez les Scorpions. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 140: 857 - 958.
- SISSOM, W. D. 1990. Systematics, biogeography and paleontology. Pp. 64 - 160 in Polis, G. A. (ed.): The Biology of Scorpions. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
- KOVARIK, F. 1996. Baloorthochirus becvari gen. et sp. n. from Pakistan, and taxonomic position of Orthochirus luteipes (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae, 60: 177 - 181.
- KOVARIK, F. 2004. Revision and taxonomic position of genera Afghanorthochirus Lourenco & Vachon, Baloorthochirus Kovarik, Butheolus Simon, Nanobuthus Pocock, Orthochiroides Kovarik, Pakistanorthochirus Lourenco, and Asian Orthochirus Karsch, with descriptions of twelve new species (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Euscorpius, 16: 1 - 33.