Parabuthus quincyae, Kovařík & Lowe & Elmi & Šťáhlavský, 2024

Kovařík, František, Lowe, Graeme, Elmi, Hassan Sh Abdirahman & Šťáhlavský, František, 2024, Scorpions of the Horn of Africa (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Part XXX. Parabuthus (Buthidae) (Part III), with description of three new species from Somaliland and occurrence of Parabuthus eritreaensis Kovařík, 2003, Euscorpius 385, pp. 1-27 : 23

Parabuthus quincyae sp. n.

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TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Somaliland, Huluul, 09.977614°N 46.6932°E, 811 m a. s. l. ; FKCP.

TYPE MATERIAL ( FKCP). Somaliland, Huluul, 09.977614°N 46.6932°E, 811 m a. s. l. (Locality No. 21SI, Fig. 95 and fig. 55 in KovařÍk & Lowe , 2021: 10), 10.-11.X.2021, 1♂ (holotype, DNA-2134, Figs. 94 , 96–121 , 125–127 ), leg. F. KovařÍk.

Figures

Figures 94–95: Parabuthus quincyae sp. n., male holotype. Figure 94. Male holotype in vivo habitus. Figure 95. Locality, Somaliland, vicinity of Huluul.

Figures 96–97. Parabuthus quincyae sp. n., male holotype, in dorsal (96) and ventral (97) views. Scale bar: 10 mm.

Figures 98–102: Parabuthus quincyae sp. n., male holotype. Figure 98. Metasoma V, and telson in lateral view. Figure 99. Metasoma I–III in dorsal view.Figures 100–102. Metasoma and telson in lateral (100), ventral (101), and dorsal (102) views. Scale bar: 10 mm (100–102).

Figures 103–110: Parabuthus quincyae sp. n., male holotype. Figure 103. Carapace and tergites I–IV. Figures 104–105. Sternopectinal area and sternites. Figure 106. Sternite VII and metasoma I–II ventral Figures 107–110. Right legs I–IV, retrolateral aspect.

Figures 111–121. Parabuthus quincyae sp. n., male holotype. Right pedipalp, chela in dorsal (111), external (112), and ventral (113) views, patella in dorsal (114), external (115), and ventral (116) views, femur and trochanter in internal (117), dorsal (118), and ventral (119) views. Dentate margins of movable (120) and fixed (121) fingers. Trichobothrial pattern indicated in Figures 111–115 and 117–118 by white circles.

Figures 122–127. Male mitotic metaphases (122, 125), postpachytenes (123, 126), one sister (124) and two sister metaphases II (127) of Parabuthus species. Parabuthus dorisae sp. n. (sample 2037) (2n=16, 4II+CVIII) (122–124), P. quincyae sp. n. (sample S2134) (2n=16, II+CXIV) (125–127). Arrowheads show chromosomes in multivalent association during postpachytene. Scale bar: 5 μm. (122–127).