A new species of Compsobuthusfrom Saudi Arabia (Arachnida: Scorpiones)

Autor: Afifeh, Bassam Abu, Aloufi, Abdulhadi, Al-Saraireh, Mohammad, Amr, Zuhair
Zdroj: Zoology in the Middle East; October 2021, Vol. 67 Issue: 4 p365-372, 8p
Abstrakt: A new species of scorpion belonging to the genus Compsobuthusis described based on a single male specimen collected from Ain El-Hamah, Khaybar, Saudi Arabia. The new species, Compsobuthus khaybarisp. n., belongs to the wernerigroup of Compsobuthusand is closely related with C. longipalpisand C. fuscatus. A key for species of the genus Compsobuthusknown from Saudi Arabia is given. With this new species, the number of Compsobuthusspecies increases to six.http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6C0EAEF6-005C-447E-9DAC-FD5508589167
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