A new remarkable species of Alloscorpiops Vachon, 1980 from Myanmar (Burma) (Scorpiones, Scorpiopidae)

Abstract

Among the genera of the family Scorpiopidae Kraepelin, 1905 Alloscorpiops remains yet rather discrete. New species were added to this genus only recently, increasing its number from two to six. Therefore, species of Alloscorpiops can be considered rare and uncommonly collected. One particular new species, Alloscorpiops viktoriae sp. n., is described based on two females and one pre-adult male collected from the northern part of central Myanmar (Burma). The new species presents most features exhibited by scorpions of the genus Alloscorpiops, but it is characterised by a moderate to small size, very strongly marked granulation, and a particular trichobothrial pattern. Aspects of the ecology and distribution of the new species are discussed and compared with those of other species of genus Alloscorpiops.

A new species of the genus Scorpiops Peters, 1861, subgenus Euscorpiops Vachon, 1980 from Thailand (Scorpiones, Scorpiopidae)

“… Scorpiops microhabitats suggest that these predators have an ambush or sit-and-wait type of foraging ( McCormick and Polis 1990 ). It is predicted that scorpions in this genus have limited distribution ranges with high degree of endemism, as it has been reported for S. dunlopi , S. phatoensis ( Kovařík et al 2020 ), and S. ( Alloscorpiops ) viktoriae ( Lourenço and Košulič 2018 ).…”

“…Scorpiops microhabitats suggest that these predators have an ambush or sit-and-wait type of foraging (McCormick and Polis 1990). It is predicted that scorpions in this genus have limited distribution ranges with high degree of endemism, as it has been reported for S. dunlopi, S. phatoensis (Kovařík et al 2020), and S. (Alloscorpiops) viktoriae (Lourenço and Košulič 2018). Until now, all Scorpiops species reported in Thailand were believed to be endemic to their habitats (Kovařík 1993(Kovařík , 2000(Kovařík , 2013Kovařík et al 2013aKovařík et al , 2013bKovařík et al , 2015Kovařík et al , 2020Lourenço 2019).…”

“…As already discussed in several previous papers (e.g. Lourenço and Košulič 2018;Lourenço 2019;Lourenço and Ythier 2022), the generic composition of the now accepted family Scorpiopidae was mainly due to , who revised the genus Scorpiops Peters, 1861 and described three new subgenera (Alloscorpiops, Euscorpiops, and Neoscorpiops) in addition to the nominotypical subgenus Scorpiops. These four subgenera were later elevated to generic rank by Lourenço (1998), and new taxa of the generic level were subsequently added to the family (Parascorpiops Banks, 1928, Dasyscorpiops Vachon, 1974, Laoscorpiops Lourenço, 2013, Vietscorpiops Lourenço & Pham, 2015, and Plethoscorpiops Lourenço, 2017.…”