An Overlooked Species of Enigmatic Wolf Spider (Araneae: Lycosidae) Clarifies the Mysterious Distribution of its Sibling

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  An Overlooked Species of Enigmatic Wolf Spider (Araneae: Lycosidae) Clarifies the Mysterious Distribution of its Sibling Abstract Several wolf spiders exhibit a peculiar geographical distribution. One good example of this is Pardosa aenigmatica Tongiorgi, 1966, recently recognized in Italy and the Middle East but missing in the Balkans. A comparison of populations from the disjunctive areas revealed that they would be better described as two distinct species. As a result, here we describe Pardosa sepidehae sp. nov. The paper includes detailed descriptions and comparative illustrations of male and female copulatory organs for the newly discovered species and P. aenigmatica. Pardosa sepidehae sp. nov. is distributed in the Middle East, whereas P. aenigmatica remains endemic to the Apennine Peninsula. Adile Akpinar, Petr Dolejš "An Overlooked Species of Enigmatic Wolf Spider (Araneae: Lycosidae) Clarifies the Mysterious Distribution of its Sibling," Annales Zoologici, 76(29), ...

A NEW HIGH-ELEVATION SCORPION SPECIES OF THE GENUS HOTTENTOTTA BIRULA, 1908 (SCORPIONES: BUTHIDAE) FROM TIBET, CHINA

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A NEW HIGH-ELEVATION SCORPION SPECIES OF THE GENUS HOTTENTOTTA BIRULA, 1908 (SCORPIONES: BUTHIDAE) FROM TIBET, CHINA

Abstract
A new species belonging to the genus Hottentotta Birula, 1908 (family Buthidae C. L. Koch, 1837) is described on the basis of one adult female specimen collected in Wāgya La, Kangmar County, Tibet (Xizang), China. Hottentotta leetzi sp. n. was collected at an elevation of 4920 m, representing to our knowledge the highest elevation record for a scorpion species in Asia, and maybe in the World. This new scorpion taxon represents the 61st described species among the currently recognized species for the genus Hottentotta and the second reported from China. It is the 30th scorpion species reported from Tibet.

A special thanks to Gérard DUPRE for sending me the latest copy of "Arachnides". 

Image de couverture : mâle holotype d’Hottentotta songi (Lourenço, Qi & Zhu, 2005) in Zootaxa, no 985, p. 1–16. Directeur de la publication : Gérard DUPRE. Maquette : Gérard DUPRE. Mail : gd.hadrurus@orange.fr
ISSN 2431-2320.
Commission Paritaire de Presse : 72309.

Ythier, Eric. (2024). A new high-elevation species of the genus Hottentotta Birula, 1908 Linnaeus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Tibet, China. 2024.  

Via Eric Ythier on ResearchGate.