Alpiscorpius dinaricus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Neoscorpionina
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Scorpiones Subordo: Neoscorpionina

Familia: Euscorpiidae
Genus: Alpiscorpius
Species: Alpiscorpius dinaricus

Name

Alpiscorpius dinaricus di Caporiacco, 1950

Type locality: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Prenj [=Dinaric Alps], near Mostar (860 m a.s.l.) [See also specimens from Kalinovik below]

Typus: Syntypes 1 ♀ "Mostar" NHMW?, lost; 8 ♂, 20 ♀ "Kalinovik" PASW [per Tropea, 2021: 41].

Note: Tropea reports (p.41) that "Caporiacco (1950) described “E. germanus dinaricus” based on a specimen from Prenj, near Mostar, and data for 28 specimens from Kalinovik published by Hadži (1930)". See also comments (p.45) about the lost "Mostar" specimen, and in support of the latter to become syntypes, indicating "one of these specimens should be chosen as the lectotype".

Synonymy

Euscorpius germanus dinaricus di Caporiacco, 1950: 215, 229. (Original combination)
Euscorpius mingrelicus dinaricus (di Caporiacco, 1950); Fet & Sissom, 2000: 370.
Alpiscorpius (Balkanscorpius) dinaricus (di Caporiacco, 1950); Tropea, 2021: 41, Figs 65-80, Table 2, 4 and 5.

Heterotypic:

Euscorpius beroni Fet, 2000: 49. ([≡Alpiscorpius beroni (Fet, 2000)] Junior subjective synonym of Alpiscorpius dinaricus (di Caporiacco, 1950) in Tropea, 2021: 41, 45).
- Type locality: Albania, Shkoder District, Boga, Maya Tchardakut, 1400-188 m. 1.06.1993.
  - Typus: Holotype, Female ♀, NMNHS137. Paratypes males and females.

References

Primary references

di Caporiacco, L. 1950. Le specie e sottospecie del genre "Euscorpius" viventi in Italia ed in alcune zone confinanti. Memorie/Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali (8)2 Scz. 3a, 4: 159–230. Reference page. [Not Seen, cited in Fet & Sissom, 2000]
Fet, V.Y. 2000. Scorpions (Arachnida, Scorpiones) from the Balkan Peninsula in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia. Historia Naturalis Bulgarica 11: 47–60. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Fet, V.Y. & Sissom, W.D. 2000. Family Euscorpidae Laurie, 1896. Pp. 355–380 in Fet, V., Sissom, W.D., Lowe, G. & Braunwalder, M.E. (Editors). Catalog of the Scorpions of the World (1758–1998). The New York Entomological Society, New York. 690 pp. PDF Reference page.
Tropea, G. 2021. Concerning some Balkan Euscorpiidae populations (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae). Biologia Serbica 43(2): 22–54. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5707462 PDF Reference page.

Additional references

Hadži J. 1930. Die europäischen Skorpione des Polnischen Zoologischen Staatsmuseums in Warszawa. Annales Musei Zoologici Polonici 9(4):29–38.

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