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The genus Orobothriurus Maury in central Argentina with description of a new species from El Nevado mountain chain in Mendoza Province (Scorpiones: Bothriuridae)

Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Avenida Ángel Gallardo 470, CP: 1405DJR, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Laboratorio de Entomología, IADIZA (Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas), CCT, Mendoza, CC507, CP(5500), Mendoza, Argentina
Laboratorio de Entomología, IADIZA (Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas), CCT, Mendoza, CC507, CP(5500), Mendoza, Argentina
Cátedra de Diversidad Animal I, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Av. Vélez Sarsfield 299, 5000, Córdoba, Argentina
Arachnida Scorpiones Orobothriurus new species El Nevado Argentina

Abstract

New data on the scorpion genus Orobothriurus Maury 1976 in central Argentina are provided. Orobothriurus grismadoi n. sp. is described; this species occurs in high altitudes in El Nevado mountain chain, an isolated orographic system in Southern Mendoza, Argentina, separated by almost 200 km from the Andes Mountain chain. This species is closely related to Orobothriurus alticola (Pocock, 1899). This is the southernmost record for the genus about 300 km south from previous records. Orobothriurus bivittatus (Thorell, 1877) is synonymised with O. alticola based on material recently collected in El Tontal mountain chain. We also provide new data about the distribution and intraspecific variability of O. alticola.

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