Cloud forest scorpions: a new species of Guyanochactas Lourenço, 1998 (Scorpiones, Chactidae) from Mount Itoupé in French Guiana

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Cloud forest scorpions: a new species of Guyanochactas Lourenço, 1998 (Scorpiones, Chactidae) from Mount Itoupé in French Guiana

Abstract. – 

A new species of scorpion belonging to the genus Guyanochactas Lourenço, 1998 (family Chactidae Pocock, 1893), is described on the basis of one specimen collected in the cloud forest of Mount Itoupé, the second highest peak of French Guiana. Guyanochactas itoupe sp. n. represents the fourth species of the genus reported from French Guiana and the total number of Guyanochactas species is now raised to six. The new species is a possible vicariant of Guyanochactas touroulti Lourenço, 2018, equally described from a massif formation of French Guiana, the Mitaraka.

Ythier E., Chevalier J. & Lourenço W. R., 2025. – Scorpions des forêts de nuages : une nouvelle espèce de Guyanochactas Lourenço, 1998 (Scorpiones, Chactidae) du Mont Itoupé en Guyane Française. Faunitaxys, 13(48): 1 – 9. https://archive.org/details/faunitaxys-f-386