Chaerilus ceylonensis Pocock 1894
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Chaerilus ceylonensis Pocock, 1894
(Figs. 13, 200, 428–457)
Chaerilus ceylonensis Pocock, 1894: 83–84; Vachon, 1982: 102, figs. 94–95; Tikader & Bastawade, 1983: 326–332, figs. 925–939; Fet, 2000: 325 (complete reference list until 1998); Kovařík, 2000: 44–45, fig. 14; Lourenço & Huber, 2002: 273; Kovařík & Ojanguren, 2013: 135, 284, figs. 732–733.
TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Trincomalee; BMNH.
TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Sri Lanka, Trincomalee, 1♂ (holotype, figs. 732–733 in Kovařík & Ojanguren, 2013: 284), BMNH No. 1893.10.20.4.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED. Sri Lanka, North Central Province, Polonnaruwa District, ca 35 km from Dambula, 07°57'15.1"N 080°54'45,4"E, 132 m a.s.l. (Locality 15CD, Fig. 578), 22.IV.2015, 2♂ (Figs. 200, 428, 430– 431, 436, 438, 440–442, 446–449, 454) 1♀ (Figs. 429, 432–435, 437, 439, 443–445, 450–453, 455), FKCP, 1♂ 1♀ 1juv., UPSL, leg. Kovařík et al.; North Central Province, Polonnaruwa District, near Kaudulla National Park, 08°08'40.6"N 080°51'04"E, 101 m a.s.l. (Locality 15CF, Fig. 581), 23.IV.2015, 1♂ 1♀ 1juv., FKCP, 1♂ 1juv., UPSL, leg. Kovařík et al.; North Central Province, Puttalam District, Eluwankulam, 08°17'15"N 079°50'38.7"E, 38 m a.s.l. (Locality 15CO, Fig. 592), 28.IV.2015, 2♂, FKCP, 3juvs., UPSL, leg. Kovařík et al.
DIAGNOSIS. Total length 27–45 mm. Two pairs of lateral eyes and one pair of median eyes. Movable fingers of pedipalps with 11–12 rows of granules. Fingers straight and short. Trichobothrium d 2 of pedipalp patella located on dorsal surface, trichobothrium id on internal surface. Pedipalp chela with 9 carinae. Pectinal teeth number 4– 6. Entire carapace evenly covered by granules. Ratio of median eye distance from anterior and posterior margins of carapace = 1: 1.55–1.60. Mesosoma without carinae. Sternites smooth. First and second metasomal segments with 10 carinae, third and fourth segments with 8 carinae, fifth segment with 7 carinae. All carinae consist of large, denticulate granules.
DISTRIBUTION. Sri Lanka.
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH , FKCP, UPSL
- Event date
- 2015-04-22 , 2015-04-23 , 2015-04-28
- Verbatim event date
- 2015-04-22 , 2015-04-23 , 2015-04-28
- Scientific name authorship
- Pocock
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Scorpiones
- Family
- Chaerilidae
- Genus
- Chaerilus
- Species
- ceylonensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chaerilus ceylonensis Pocock, 1894 sec. Kovařík, Lowe, Ranawana, Hoferek & Š, 2016
References
- POCOCK, R. I. 1894. A small contribution to our knowledge of the scorpions of India. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6 (13): 72 - 84.
- VACHON, M. 1982. Les scorpions de Sri Lanka (Recherches sur les scorpions appartenant ou deposes au Museum d`Histoire naturelle de Geneve III.). Revue suisse de Zoologie, 89: 77 - 114.
- TIKADER B. K. & D. B. BASTAWADE. 1983. The Fauna of India: Scorpions. Scorpionida, Arachnida. Vol III. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, 668 pp.
- FET, V., W. D. SISSOM, G. LOWE & M. E. BRAUNWALDER. 2000. Catalog of the Scorpions of the World (1758 - 1998). New York: The New York Entomological Society, 689 pp.
- LOURENCO, W. R. & D. HUBER. 2002. New addition to the scorpion fauna (Arachnida: Scorpiones) of Sri Lanka. Revue suisse de Zoologie, 109 (2): 265 - 275.
- KOVARIK, F & A. A. OJANGUREN AFFILASTRO. 2013. Illustrated catalog of scorpions Part II. Bothriuridae; Chaerilidae; Buthidae I., genera Compsobuthus, Hottentotta, Isometrus, Lychas, and Sassanidotus. Clairon Production, Prague, 400 pp.