A new species of Centruroides Marx (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Panama and new distribution records for Centruroides bicolor (Pocock, 1898) and Centruroides granosus (Thorell, 1876)

Abstract

A new species, Centruroides panamensis n. sp., from the foothills of Volcán Barú in the Province of Chiriquí, Panama is described with a extremely narrow distributional range. New distribution records of Centruroides bicolor (Pocock, 1898) are also presented.

First Described Envenomation by Centruroides pococki Scorpion in the French Caribbean Island Guadeloupe

“…This genus mutates perpetually and new taxa regularly are identified such as C panamensis which was discovered in Panama in 2014. 2 Different cases of envenomation by Centruroides sp have been described in the medical literature, but never in the French Caribbean. The authors report the first published case of envenomation by C pococki , on the island of Guadeloupe.…”