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Thaicharmus Kovarik 1995

Description

Genus Thaicharmus Kovařík, 1995

Thaicharmus Kovařík, 1995: 195–199; Kovařík et al., 2007: 201–209; Kovařík, 2013: 1.

Diagnosis (modified after Kovařík, 2013): Total length 16–45 mm. Dorsal trichobothria of femur arranged in alfa -configuration. Pedipalp chela with three Eb trichobothria on manus. Carapace anterior edge with epistome present medially. Third and fourth legs with long tibial spurs. Coxae of legs short, not elongated. Sternum subpentagonal, roughly as wide as long, exhibiting minor horizontal compression. Movable finger of pedipalp longer than manus. Telson vesicle globular, may be equipped with a small subaculear tubercle. Movable fingers of pedipalps with 10–12 cutting rows of granules. Pedipalps, metasoma and telson densely hirsute. Pectines with enlarged basal middle lamellae and with fulcra.

Notes

Published as part of Mirza, Zeeshan A., Sanap, Rajesh V. & Kunte, Krushnamegh, 2016, A new species of the genus Thaicharmus Kovařík, 1995 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from northeast India, pp. 3-11 in Euscorpius 215 on page 3, DOI: 10.18590/euscorpius.2016.vol2016.iss215.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5510002

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Buthidae
Genus
Thaicharmus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Scorpiones
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Kovarik
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Thaicharmus Kovarik, 1995 sec. Mirza, Sanap & Kunte, 2016

References

  • KOVARIK, F. 1995. Review of Scorpionida from Thailand with descriptions of Thaicharmus mahunkai gen. et sp. n. and Lychas krali sp. n. (Buthidae). Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae, 59: 187 - 207.
  • KOVARIK, F., M. E. SOLEGLAD & V. FET. 2007. A new species of scorpion in the " Charmus " group from India (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 40: 201 - 209.
  • KOVARIK, F. 2013. A review of Thaicharmus Kovarik, 1995, with description of Thaicharmus indicus sp. n. from India (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Euscorpius, 175: 1 - 9.