Four new scorpion species (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Amazonian Peru

Abstract

Euscorpius is the first research publication completely devoted to scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Euscorpius takes advantage of the rapidly evolving medium of quick online publication, at the same time maintaining high research standards for the burgeoning field of scorpion science (scorpiology). Euscorpius is an expedient and viable medium for the publication of serious papers in scorpiology, including (but not limited to): systematics, evolution, ecology, biogeography, and general biology of scorpions. Review papers, descriptions of new taxa, faunistic surveys, lists of museum collections, and book reviews are welcome. Derivatio Nominis The name Euscorpius Thorell, 1876 refers to the most common genus of scorpions in the Mediterranean region and southern Europe (family Euscorpiidae).

Scorpions of Sri Lanka (Scorpiones: Buthidae, Chaerilidae, Scorpionidae) with description of four new species of the genera Charmus Karsch, 1879 and Reddyanus Vachon, 1972, stat. n

“…This configuration is shared with a number of other non-Buthus group genera that have been reported, i.e. some species of Ananteris (Botero-Trujillo & Florez-Daza, 2011;Ojanguren-Affilastro, 2005) and Tityus (Kovařík, Teruel, et. al., 2015;Ojanguren-Affilastro, 2005); and Australobuthus, Hemilychas, Isometroides and Isometrus (Gysin & Le Coroller, 1968;Locket, 1990;Probst, 1972).…”

“…n. Following Stockwell (1989), we have proposed that the carinated lobe of buthids is homologous to and derived from the carinated lobe of the chaerilid hemispermatophore (Kovařík, Teruel & Lowe, 2016). In the 'Buthus' group, this lobe sits between two other lobes with more external and more internal positions, and hence was termed the 'median lobe' (Vachon, 1952 Kovařík, Teruel, et al, 2015; All Sri Lankan representatives of non-Buthus grou L metrus, Lychas and Reddyanus stat. n.) exhibit a basic 1+1 lobe configuration (fused median lobe + basal lobe), without additional internal lobes developed.…”

Two new Tityus C. L. Koch, 1836 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Hispaniola, Greater Antilles

“…The publications of this author have been deeply flawed by factual in-accuracies and unethical procedures: authoritarian statements instead of scientific arguments, inclusion of falsified images; invention of nonexistent characters to justify descriptions of "new" taxa; and intentional omission from his taxonomic comparisons of the literature and taxa written by the others; see e.g. Kovařík & Ojanguren-Affilastro (2013), Kovařík et al ( , 2015Kovařík et al ( , 2016Kovařík et al ( , 2017, Teruel (2017a), . Lourenço (2017: 105) complains aggressively about the synonymies and their putative reversal, without presenting either the slightest supporting evidence or a single argument that can be scientifically tested.…”

Two new scorpions of the genus Chaneke Francke, Teruel et Santibáñez-López, 2014 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from southern Mexico

“…al., 2005;Ojanguren-Affilastro, 2005;Prendini et. al., 2009;Teruel & Armas, 2012;Kovařík et. al., 2015).…”