Alpiscorpius mingrelicus

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 mingrelicus

Name

Alpiscorpius mingrelicus (Kessler, 1874).

Type locality: Georgia, Adzharia, Batumi, Botanical Garden

Typus: Neotype, Female ♀ NHMW-14644 legit Victor Fet, 28.VIII.1985 (Neotype designated by Scherabon et al., 2000). Originally: Syntypes ZISP, lost (see Tropea, Yağmur & Fet 2015).

Synonymy

• Scorpio mingrelicus Kessler, 1874: 25–26. (Original combination)
• Euscorpius mingrelicus (Kessler, 1874); e.g. Tropea, Yağmur & Fet 2015: 13. Figs. 37–54, Tables 1–3.
• Alpiscorpius mingrelicus (Kessler, 1874); Kovařík, Stundlova, Fet & Stahlavsky, 2019: 15 (also p.4). Comb. nov.

Heteronyms

• Euscorpius picipes Simon, 1878: 158–159 (Synonymized by Birula, 1896: 230).
  • Type locality: “Transcaucasia”, now Georgia.
    • Typus: Syntypes ♂, ♀ (MNHN), MNHN
• Euscorpius mingrelicus ollivieri Lacroix, 1995: 4 (Junior subjective synonym of Euscorpius mingrelicus (Kessler, 1874) in Tropea, Yağmur & Fet 2015: 13.
  • Type locality: Turkey, Artvin Province, Cankurtaran Pass, 260 meters elevation.
    • Typus: Neotype, Male ♂ MZUR-133, legit A. Vigna Taglianti 11.V.1987. (Neotype designated by Tropea, Yağmur & Fet 2015: 13 as "Type specimens were formerly in Lacroix collection, present location unknown, probably lost (G. Dupré, pers. comm.)").

References

Primary references

• Kessler, K.F. 1874. On Russian scorpions. Trudy Russkago Entomologicheskago Obshchestva v S.- Peterburge [=Transactions of the Russian Entomological Society in St. Petersburg] 8: 3–27. Reference page. 
• Kovařík, F., Štundlová, J., Fet, V.Y. & Šťáhlavský, F. 2019. Seven new Alpine species of the genus Alpiscorpius Gantenbein et al., 1999, stat. n. (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae). Euscorpius 287: 1–29 PDF. Reference page. 
• Tropea, G., Yağmur, E.A. & Fet, V.Y. 2015. A revision of the Anatolian-Caucasian “Euscorpius mingrelicus complex” (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae). Euscorpius 203: 1–32. PDF Reference page. 

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