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Published: 2008-04-07
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First record of the scorpion genus Chactopsis Kraepelin in Colombia, with the description of Chactopsis carolinae sp. nov. (Scorpiones: Chactidae)

Biologist of support at the Laboratorio de Entomología, Unidad de Ecología y Sistemática-UNESIS, Departamento de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia Correspondence should be sent to: Calle 117d # 58-50, apt. 515, Bogotá
Arachnida Scorpions Chactopsis new species Colombia Vichada

Abstract

Chactopsis carolinae sp. nov. is described on the basis of specimens of both sexes from Selva de Matavén, eastern Colombia. This species seems to be most closely related to Chactopsis anduzei González-Sponga from Venezuela and Brazil, based on the trichobothrial number and general arrangement. The new species, which is the first of the genus to be known from Colombia, raises to ten the number of known species of Chactopsis.

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