MACNBR 00242
MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES "BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA"
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
he genus Orobothriurus in central Argentina with the description of a new species from El Nevado mountain chaín in Mendoza (Scorpions: Bothriuridae)
Autor/es:
ANDRES ALEJANDRO OJANGUREN AFFILASTRO; FLORENCIA FERNANDEZ CAMPON; SUSANA LAGOS SILNIK; CAMILO IVAN MATTONI
Revista:
zootaxa
Editorial:
Magnolia Press
Referencias:
Lugar: Auckland; Año: 2009 vol. 2209 p. 28 - 42
ISSN:
1175-5326
Resumen:
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.
