Four new species of Harmonicon F. O. Pickard-Cambridge 1896 from Brazil with the first male description of H. rufescens (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae)

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Four new species of Harmonicon F. O. Pickard-Cambridge 1896 from Brazil with the first male description of H. rufescens (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae) Abstract Four new species of Harmonicon F. O. Pickard-Cambridge 1896 are described from the Cerrado biome of Brazil. Three new species are from Tocantins state, in the North region of Brazil: H. arraias n. sp. (♂), H. palmas n. sp. (♂♀), H. tocantins n. sp. (♂), and one new species is from Mato Grosso state, in the Central-west Brazil: H. guimaraes n. sp. (♂♀). Furthermore, we here describe for the first time the male of H. rufescens F. O. Pickard-Cambridge 1896 and expand the distribution range of this species and that of H. candango Wermelinger-Moreira, Castanheira & Baptista 2024. Gabriel Wermelinger-Moreira , Renner Luiz Cerqueira Baptista , Four new species of Harmonicon F. O. Pickard-Cambridge 1896 from Brazil with the first male description of H. rufescens (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae) , Acta Arachnologic...

Scorpions of the Horn of Africa (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Part XLIII. Lanzatus fuscipalpis sp. n. from Ethiopia (Buthidae)

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Scorpions of the Horn of Africa (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Part XLIII. Lanzatus fuscipalpis sp. n. from Ethiopia (Buthidae)

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The rare Horn of Africa buthid genus Lanzatus Kovařík, 2001, known only from Somalia and Somaliland, is recorded for the first time from Ethiopia. We describe a new species Lanzatus fuscipalpis sp. n. fully illustrated with color photographs showing its morphology, habitus, hemispermatophore, and collection sites.

Kovařík, F., & Lowe, G. 2025 . Scorpions of the Horn of Africa (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Part XLIII. Lanzatus fuscipalpis sp. n. from Ethiopia (Buthidae). Euscorpius, No. 421: 1-13. https://mds.marshall.edu/euscorpius/vol2025/iss421/1/