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Pandinurus kmoniceki [Kovarik, Lowe, Mazuch, Pliskova & Stahlavsky, 2017]

Frantisek Kovarik and his co-workers studying the scorpion fauna of The Horn of Africa recently published a new species in the genus Pandinurus Fet, 1997 (Scorpionidae).

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Figures 1–2: Pandinurus kmoniceki sp. n., male holotype in dorsal (1) and ventral (2) aspects. Scale bar: 10 mm.

Figures 3–4: Pandinurus kmoniceki sp. n., female paratype in dorsal (3) and ventral (4) aspects. Scale bar: 10 mm.image.png

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Figures 43–44: Pandinurus kmoniceki sp. n., in vivo habitus. Male holotype (43) and female paratype (44).

 

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Figure 45–46: Pandinurus kmoniceki sp. n., the type locality. Fig. 45. Photo taken on 5 February 2017 after collecting the type
specimens. Fig. 46. Photo taken on 15 July 2011

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Figure 47: Map showing confirmed Horn of Africa distribution of Pandinurus Fet, 1997. The only member of the genus not
distributed within this region is Pandinurus sudanicus (Hirst, 1911).

 

Reference:
Kovarik F, Lowe G, Mazuch T, Pliskova J, Stahlavsky F. Scorpions of the Horn of Africa (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Part XI. Pandinurus kmoniceki sp. n. (Scorpionidae) from Somaliland. Euscorpius. 2017(243):1-14. [Open Access]