Two new species of Euscorpius (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) from Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece

Victor Fet; Matthew R Graham; Michael M Webber; Gergin Blagoev

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3894.1.7

Two new species of Euscorpius (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) from Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece

Zootaxa. 2014 Dec 11:3894:83-105. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3894.1.7.

Authors

Victor Fet¹, Matthew R Graham², Michael M Webber³, Gergin Blagoev⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, USA; Email: et@marshall.edu.
² Department of Biology, Eastern Connecticut State University, Connecticut, USA; Email: unknown.
³ School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; Email: unknown.
⁴ Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada; Email: unknown.

PMID: 25544622
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3894.1.7

Abstract

Two new species of Euscorpius Thorell, 1876 (subgenus Euscorpius s.str.) (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) are described based on morphology and the COI DNA barcoding marker: E. deltshevi sp. n. from northern Bulgaria and neighbouring Serbia (formerly reported as E. carpathicus) and E. solegladi sp. n. from southwestern Bulgaria and neighbouring Greece (formerly reported as E. hadzii).

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animal Distribution
Animal Structures / anatomy & histology
Animal Structures / growth & development
Animals
Body Size
Bulgaria
Female
Greece
Male
Organ Size
Scorpions / anatomy & histology
Scorpions / classification*
Scorpions / growth & development
Serbia