Notes on the genus Mesobuthus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in China, with description of a new species

Dong Sun; Zhen-Ning Sun

doi:10.1636/Ha10-36.1

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Dong Sun,¹ Zhen-Ning Sun²

¹Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China. E-mail: bio.sundong@126.com
²State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

Abstract

Mesobuthus karshius new species from the southern region of Xinjiang, China, is described. Nine species and subspecies of the genus Mesobuthus Vachon 1950 from China are recorded, and diagnoses of M. eupeus mongolicus (Birula 1911), M. eupeus thersites (C.L. Koch 1839) and M. martensii martensii (Karsch 1879) are provided. In addition, M. caucasicus przewalskii (Birula 1897), M. caucasicus intermedius (Birula 1897), M. eupeus mongolicus (Birula 1911), M. karshius sp. nov. and M. martensii martensii (Karsch 1879) are illustrated, and a key to the Chinese Mesobuthus is also provided.

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Dong Sun and Zhen-Ning Sun "Notes on the genus Mesobuthus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in China, with description of a new species," The Journal of Arachnology 39(1), 59-75, (1 April 2011). https://doi.org/10.1636/Ha10-36.1

Received: 21 May 2010; Published: 1 April 2011

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