Grosphus hirtus Kraepelin 1900
Creators
- 1. Musèum national d'Histoire naturelle, Dèpartement Systèmatique et … volution, UMR 7205, case postale 53, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France)
Description
Grosphus hirtus Kraepelin, 1900
Grosphus hirtus Kraepelin, 1900: 15.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Female holotype: Madagascar, Central region, Makaraingo, 1898 (Dr Escoffe), MNHN. RS-1545.
DIAGNOSIS. — Scorpion of medium size with a total length of 40 to 50 mm. General coloration yellowish to reddish-yellow with variegated brownish spots over the body and appendages. Carapace weakly to moderately granular; anterior margin almost straight.Pectines:pectinal teeth count in average 19- 19 in males and 15- 15 in females; basal middle lamellae of each pecten not dilated in males, strongly dilated in females with a more or less square shape. Metasomal segment I wider than long. Dorsal carinae on segments II to IV with one strong posterior spinoid granule. Fixed and movable fingers with 11-12 oblique rows of granules.
DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGY. — It was first suggested that this species was broadly distributed in the island (Lourenço 1996). However, more precise inspection of specimens previously allocated to G. hirtus indicates that several previous records attributed to this taxon were misidentifications of morphologically similar species, which were subsequently described as new species (Lourenço 2005). After a reexamination of available material, there is no evidence for the occurrence of G. hirtus in South-Western Madagascar (Lourenço et al. 2007a, b).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MNHN
- Family
- Buthidae
- Genus
- Grosphus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- RS-1545
- Order
- Scorpiones
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Kraepelin
- Species
- hirtus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Grosphus hirtus Kraepelin, 1900 sec. Lourenço, 2014
References
- KRAEPELIN K. 1900. - Ueber einige neue Gliederspinnen. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften. Herausgegeben vom naturwissenschaftlichen Verein in Hamburg 16, 1 (4): 1 - 17.
- LOURENCO W. R. 1996. - Scorpions (Chelicerata, Scorpiones). Coll. Faune de Madagascar, Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, 87, 102 p.
- LOURENCO W. R. 2005. - Scorpions from Mandena East Coastal rain forest in Madagascar, and description of a new species of Grosphus Simon (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 37: 83 - 87.
- LOURENCO W. R., QI J. X. & GOODMAN S. M. 2007 a. - Scorpions of southwest Madagascar. A new species of Grosphus Simon, 1880 (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 40: 171 - 177.
- LOURENCO W. R., SOARIMALALA V. & GOODMAN S. M. 2007 b. - Scorpions of south-west Madagascar. II. The species of Grosphus Simon (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 41: 369 - 375.