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A new species of striped bark scorpions, Centruroides lenca sp. n. is described, based on both sexes, from the Pacayita Volcano
Biological Reserve (2,385 m a. s. l.), Ocotepeque Department, in the southwestern Honduras. By its general pattern, the new
species resembles C. thorellii (Kraepelin, 1891), from which it clearly differs by having strong...
Type localities—the places of origin of the name-bearing type specimens of species and subspecies—are crucial for taxonomic identification and for maintaining taxonomic and nomenclatural stability. However, historical descriptions often lack precise or identifiable locality data. Pelegrín Franganillo Balboa described nearly 200 Cuban arachnids (192...
In the backyard of an urban residence in San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa Province, Cuba, an adult Leiocephalus c. carinatus Gray, 1827 was observed performing necrophagy over a two-week period. The lizard consumed domestic cockroaches (Periplaneta americana) and a ground beetle (Carabidae), both of which were fully dehydrated and had been dead f...
Sherwood & Armas (2023) provided a comprehensive and up to-date list of scorpions detected as stowaways in the United Kingdom. Since that work, the senior author has received further enquiries which contribute a number of new records for the literature. Furthermore, it came to our attention through correspondence with colleagues that we ought to ex...
Se registra la depredación de dos especies de escorpiones del género Tityus C.L. Koch, 1836 (Buthidae), a partir de los restos extraídos del estómago de una hembra de la rana Leptodactylus pentadactylus (Laurenti, 1768) (Anura: Leptodactylidae), la cual fue recolectada en una localidad del estado venezolano de Anzoátegui. De una de las especies de...
Se registra por primera vez la depredación del escorpión Centruroides bicolor (Pocock, 1898)
(Buthidae) por el geco de cola de nabo Thecadactylus rapicauda (Houttuyn, 1782) (Phyllodactylidae),
y del geco Hemidactylus frenatus Dumeril y Bibron, 1836 (Gekkonidae), por Centruroides edwardsii
(Gervais, 1843). El primer caso fue observado en Costa Ric...
Since the description of Buthus ibericus Lourenço & Vachon 2004, a total of 17 congeneric species have been identified in the Iberian Peninsula; nine of which are from the Andalucía region. As result of a recently published revision of specimens from the southwestern area of this peninsula, only two species were recognized for Huelva Province: Buth...
Se describe una especie nueva del género Phrynus Lamarck, 1801, sobre la base de una hembra adulta recolectada en Río Parguaza, estado Bolívar, Venezuela. Este ejemplar había sido erróneamente registrado como Phrynus pulchripes (Pocock, 1894). Se ofrece una clave para la identificación de las cuatro especies del género Phrynus hasta ahora conocidas...
Intraguild predation occurs when an organism preys on a competitor. This ecological interaction can have considerable consequences on the population dynamics of predators and indirectly affect their prey. In arachnids, it is a quite common phenomenon, but it has been poorly documented in the Neotropical region. Here, we present records of 16 specie...
El amblipígido Paraphrynus maya Armas, Trujillo & Agreda, 2017, (Amblypygi: Phrynidae) que solo se conocía de Guatemala, se registra por primera vez para Honduras, a partir de una hembra adulta recolectada en la aldea La Libertad, municipio Trojes, departamento El Paraíso. Ahora la aracnofauna hondureña contiene dos especies confirmadas de Paraphry...
A significant study of the amblypygid fauna of Honduras is lacking. Historically, species were misidentified and data on distribution, natural history and conservation status of the known species are lacking or insufficient. In this contribution, an overview on the amblypygids of Honduras, including taxonomy, distribution, natural history and comme...
The mastiff bat populations from Cuba + Cayman Islands + Jamaica is a single species previously named Molossus milleri Johnson, 1952. Nevertheless, the available name is Molossus tropidorhynus Gray, 1839, which has priority over M. milleri Johnson, 1952 and, consequently, the last is regarded as a junior synonym of M. tropidorhynus.
Current knowledge on the diversity, distribution, ecology and medical importance of the scorpions from the United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs) is synthesised and discussed. Scorpions are absent from British Antarctic and British Indian Ocean territories, the Falkland Islands, the Pitcairn Islands, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Is...
The respective holotypes of Charinus acosta (Quintero, 1983), C. cubensis (Quintero, 1983), C. decu (Quintero, 1983), and C. wanlessi (Quintero, 1983), which after their description remained deposited in an unknown institution (not in those originally stated), were rediscovered in the Museo de Invertebrados G. B. Fairchild of the University of Pana...
A new species of the genus Charinus Simon, 1892 is described from Saint Vincent Island, Lesser Antilles, on the basis of a male and an immature female collected in 1897 and identified in 1981 by Diomedes Quintero, Jr. as a new species in schedula (not published). It resembles Charinus perezassoi Armas, 2010 from Puerto Rico, and C. tomasmicheli Arm...
La fauna de arácnidos de Cuba está bien estudiada en el contexto de revisiones taxonómicas tradicionales y estudios ecológicos. Sin embargo, con la creciente disponibilidad de datos adicionales proporcionados por la ciencia ciudadana, se decidió analizar todos los registros de Amblypygi, Ricinulei, Scorpiones, Solifugae y Uropygi de Cuba del sitio...
Se describe una especie nueva del género Centruroides Marx, 1890, sobre la base de una hembra adulta recolectada en Isla Guanaja, departamento Islas de la Bahía, Honduras. Por su aspecto general en vista dorsal, fue previamente confundida con C. caribbeanus Teruel & Myers, 2017; pero, a diferencia de esta especie, presenta el metasoma más grácil, l...
Whilst undertaking curation in the collections of the Natural History Museum, London, the senior author came across a jar of scorpions marked ‘scorpions with curled feet’. Further investigation showed this jar was full of scorpions with teratological anatomy. We hereby document and illustrate all of the specimens and discuss their respective anomal...
This is an obituary of Rolando Teruel Ochoa (1974–2023), a great Cuban arachnologist. A full list of his works is appended, as
well as a list of scorpions and other arachnids described by Rolando.
This is an obituary of Rolando Teruel Ochoa (1974–2023), a great Cuban arachnologist. A full list of his works is appended, as
well as a list of scorpions and other arachnids described by Rolando.
The scorpion Buthus baeticus Teruel &Turiel, 2020 is recorded for the first time from Huelva Province, Spain, where it is
widespread. The distribution of Buthus delafuentei Teruel &Turiel, 2020 is extended 35 km towards the west, up to the border with
Portugal, and 40 km towards the north. New data about the morphometric variation of both Iberian s...
The Central American bark scorpion Centruroides nigrimanus (Pocock, 1898) was described on the basis of an adult male holotype from Oaxaca, Mexico, and an immature paratype from Honduras. In relation to the latter specimen, Pocock (1898: 388) wrote: “Also a younger specimen of apparently the same species from Honduras (Indo-Colonial Exhibition)”. A...
Resumen. Se registra por primera vez la presencia del amblipígido Paraphrynus laevifrons (Pocock, 1894) en Honduras, Cen-troamérica (un registro previo para la isla de Útila, departamento de Islas de la Bahía, constituye un error de identificación). Además, se aportan nuevos datos de distribución e historia natural de Phrynus whitei Gervais, 1842....
Resumen: Se registra un caso de albinismo parcial en una hembra de Centruroides limbatus (Pocock, 1898) recolectada en Hon-duras, Centroamérica. Este representa el segundo caso de este tipo de aberración cromática reportado para un escorpión de las Américas. Palabras clave: escorpión, aberración cromática, leucismo, Neotrópico. Partial albinism in...
Previous and new records of scorpions detected as stowaways in the United Kingdom are presented and discussed. Five taxa are recorded in the scientific literature for the first time: Centruroides insulanus (Thorell, 1876, Centruroides sp. (nigrovariatus species group), Hottentotta cf. tamulus (Fabricius, 1798), Mesobuthus sp. and Cercophonius squam...
Se describe una especie nueva del género Charinus Simon, 1892, procedente del distrito Santa Teresa (1436 –1511 m de altitud), en La Convención, Cusco, Perú, la cual es la tercera para dicha región y la quinta para este país sudamericano. Su aspecto general y los gonópodos de la hembra son muy parecidos a los de Charinus longitarsus Armas & Palomin...
La presencia en Honduras del escorpión Centruroides limbatus (Pocock, 1898) pasó inadvertida o fue categóricamente negada por otros, quienes lo confundieron con Centruroides gracilis (Latreille, 1804). El examen de tres hembras y un macho, varias instantáneas fotográficas y datos contenidos en publicaciones anteriores demostraron que C. limbatus es...
A body entirely covered with long and sharp-pointed spines makes Acanthoniscus spiniger Gosse, 1851, one of the rarest and most ornamented terrestrial isopods in the world. The original description of this species was based on a single specimen collected by the British naturalist Philip Henry Gosse in Jamaica in 1845 and deposited in the British Mu...
La presente contribución aborda la distribución altitudinal de las especies de amblipígidos del género Charinus Simon, 1892 en las Américas, un aspecto no estudiado previamente. Para ello se analizaron 75 artículos de taxonomía y ecología del grupo. La mayoría (62%) de estas especies habitan a menos de 301 m s.n.m.; 24.0% habitan entre los 301 y 60...
Resumen: Se registran dos nuevas localidades para Trentepohlia (Mongoma) inexpectata Mederos & Gelhaus, incluida la primera de la provincia de Artemisa. Además, se añaden nuevos datos sobre la historia natural de esta poco conocida especie de díptero, endémica de Cuba.
New locality records of Trentepohlia (Mongoma) inexpectata (Diptera: Limoniidae...
The rare short-tailed whipscopion Bucinozomus hortuspalmarum Armas & Rehfeldt, 2015, described on the basis of two male specimens collected in a greenhouse in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is recorded from the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Sin-gapore, southeastern Asia. This new record is based on the photographs of two adult specimens (female and male...
The mite Pellonyssus gorgasi Yunker & Radovsky is recorded for the first time in Cuba, based on several specimens collected on a young Cuban Emerald, Riccordia ricordii ricordii (Gervais) (Apodiformes: Trochilidae) and in its nest from San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa Province. In this study, R. r. ricordii represents a new host-association for P...
The assembly of communities is often viewed as a process involving the dispersal of species from a regional pool. An oceanic island provides a unique opportunity to test such a hypothesis and many others related to the patterns and processes behind biodiversity. Our aim was to investigate the patterns of scorpion diversity in the Cuban archipelago,...
Se registra la muerte accidental de Anolis porcatus (Gray, 1841), Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnés, 1818) y Sphaerodactylus elegans (MacLeay, 1834) en el interior de vasos utilizados como adornos domésticos en un domicilio urbano de San Antonio de los Baños, provincia de Artemisa, Cuba. Además, se reportan el parasitismo del ácaro Pterygosoma...
Por primera vez en Cuba, se registra la depredación del escorpión Buthidae Centruroides gracilis (Latreille, 1804) y de la araña Pholcidae Physocyclus globosus (Taczanowski, 1874), por el lagarto Gekkonidae Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818). Este es, además, el quinto depredador conocido de dicho escorpión en Cuba, siendo los otros cuat...
Resumen: Se registra por primera vez la presencia en Cuba, Antillas Mayores, de la mosca invasora Zaprionus indianus Gupta, 1970 (Diptera: Drosophilidae), a partir de especímenes recolectados sobre frutas maduras en San Antonio de los Baños, provincia de Artemisa. Esta mosca, de origen africano y hábitos polífagos, se ha dispersado en numerosos paí...
Euscorpius is the first research publication completely devoted to scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Euscorpius takes advantage of the rapidly evolving medium of quick online publication, at the same time maintaining high research standards for the burgeoning field of scorpion science (scorpiology). Euscorpius is an expedient and viable medium for...
Resumen: Se describen cuatro especies nuevas de ricinúleos cubanos del género Pseudocellus Platnick, 1980; tres proceden de cuevas en la cordillera de Guaniguanico, provincias de Pinar del Río y Artemisa, región occidental de Cuba, y una del sur de la provincia Las Tunas, Cuba oriental. Con estas adiciones, la lista de ricinúleos de Cuba asciende a...
Abstract. Predation of at least seven insect species belonging to the orders Coleoptera, Dictyoptera, and Orthoptera, by two domestic cats (Felis catus Linnaeus, 1758) in an urban area in San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa Province, Cuba, is recorded. The fecal samples (n = 12) were taken on June 2021; 11 of them contained rest of insects. The most...
Nuevas observaciones de campo confirman que la ingestión de lombrices de tierra (Oligochaeta) por Anolis sagrei no es un evento tan raro como se creía. De igual modo, las observaciones realizadas en tres inviernos consecutivos (2019, 2020, 2021), durante la temporada de floración de las orquídeas Cattleya lueddemanniana y Guarianthe skinneri, ratif...
Until now, only four species of vertebrates (two caecilian amphibians from Tanzania, a frog from Mexico, and an anole lizard from Colombia) and three invertebrate species (two army ants from Brazil, and a whip spider from Cuba) have been recorded as predators of schizomids. Among the prey species, only Stenochrus portoricensis has been identified....
Resumen: Se confirma la presencia de Maekistocera longipennis (Macquart, 1838) en Cuba tras 180 años de su descripción. Según el material estudiado, la especie parece encontrarse bien distribuida por el occidente de la isla, por lo que no se descarta su presencia también en la mitad oriental. Así mismo, se ofrecen las primeras imágenes de la genita...
Abstract. Eleven of the 13 known troglobitic scorpions have been described from eastern Mexico (states of Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, Campeche, Yucatán and Oaxaca). Five of these anophthalmic species (eyes are lacking) belong to the family Chactidae (genera Alacran and Typhlochactas). Other families having troglobitic species in this cou...
The Central American population of scorpions previously misidentified as Tityus pachyurus Pocock, 1897 is described as a new species, which is endemic of most parts of Panama and Limon Province in Costa Rica. As recorded by several authors, those two species are responsible of most of the grave cases by scorpion stinging in Colombia and Panama.
The first data on the natural history of the Hispaniolan whip scorpion Mastigoproctus proscorpio (Latreille, 1806) are given. Among its prey are frequent the spirobolid millipedes and several gastropods (Polydontes, sp., Abbotella spp., and others), but the beetle Phyllophaga sp. is also eaten. A female with 36 offprints was found near Cumayasa Riv...
Diet of the curly-tailed lizard Leiocephalus carinatus cayensis is reported on the basis of the stomach contents of 24 specimens from four cays of Jardines de la Reina Archipelago, southern Cuba, collected on April 1971. Among the items consumed there were crustaceans (crabs), arachnids (spiders, mites, pseudoscorpions), centipedes, insects (nine o...
Los amblipígidos Charontidae están representados en Cuba por cinco especies del género Charinus, incluida una aún no descrita. Entre estas especies, Charinus acosta (Quintero, 1983) constituye la de más amplia distribución en el País: se conoce de las provincias de Camagüey, Santiago de cuba y Guantánamo. En junio de 1997 se descubrió la presencia...
The female of Heteronebo caymanensis (Scorpiones, Diplocentridae) is described for the first time, on the basis of an adult specimen from Cayman Grand. Two immature specimens are also recorded from Cayman Brac.
Abstract. Twenty two (22) articles and brief notes, published between 1987 and 2020 by Luis F. de Armas on the natural history of some Antillean amphibians and reptiles are listed. Most of those scientific contributions deal with Cuban species, mainly Anolis porcatus and Anolis sagrei. Other studied species are the Cuban Treefrog Osteopilus septent...
La presencia de tilapia (Sarotherodon niloticus (L.)] en una cueva en San Antonio de los Baños, La Habana, Cuba, se comprobó mediante la captura de un macho de 202 mm de longitud total (16 0mm sin alela caudal), que pes6 133 g (l26 g sin visceras).
De la guabina, Gobiomorus dormitor Lacepede, se capturaron dos juveniles y se observaron res mas. Los...
The scorpions Centruroides gracilis (Latreille, 1804) and C. thorelli (Kraepelin, 1891) (Scorpiones: Bulhidae) and the solpugid Ammotrecha stolli (Pocock, 1895) (Solpugida: Ammotrechidae) are recorded from Reserva de la Biosfera de Sian Ka'an, Quintana Roo State, Mexico; also, C. gracilis is recorded as prey of Eumeces sp (Sauria: Scinocidae).
Se registra por primera vez la presencia de Paraphrynus carolynae Armas, 2012 en el estado mexicano de Guanajuato.
Los registros previos en México corresponden a los estados de Sonora, Querétaro, Michoacán, Guerrero y Morelos; en los EE.UU.
se conoce del sudeste de California y el sur de Arizona. Se destaca que Guanajuato es el segundo estado mexic...
Resumen: Se registra la captura de las luciérnagas cubanas Photuris brunnipennis Jacquelin Duval, 1856, Robopus nefarius (E. Olivier, 1912) y Robopus sp. por las arañas Argiope trifasciata (Förskal, 1775), Neoscona moreli (Vinson, 1863), Eriophora ravilla (C. L. Koch, 1844) y Eustala fuscovittata (Keyserling, 1864) (Araneae: Araneidae). También se...
The female of the scorpion Diplocentrus lachua Armas, Trujillo & Agreda, 2011 is herein described, on the basis of a single specimen collected at Parque Nacional Laguna Lachuá, Alta Verapaz Department, Guatemala, type locality for this species. An emended diagnosis is provided and the known distribution of all described Guatemalan Diplocentrus spec...
A new species of scorpion belonging to the genus Centruroides Marx, 1890 is described from the Coalcomán mountain range, western Michoacán State, Mexico. Its general aspect resembles Centruroidesruana Quijano-Ravell & Ponce-Saavedra, 2016, and C.infamatus (C. L. Koch, 1844), but it is a smaller species having lower pectinal tooth counts; also, male...
Resumen: Se registran dos casos de canibalismo no sexual en la araña sinantrópica Physocyclus globosus (Taczanowski, 1874), así como la depredación del primer estadio ninfal de la araña Theraphosidae Phormictopus cubensis Chamberlin, 1917, en una localidad urbana del occidente de Cuba. Con este nuevo registro, ahora son tres los enemigos naturales...
Information on preys and predators of the amblypygids is scarce, largely disperse and sometimes overlooked by the arachnologist. Phrynus barbadensis is a Neotropical whip spider widely distributed, but its natural history is poorly known. The main purpose of this contribution deals with preys, predators, reproductive effort and microhabitat prefere...
Resumen: Se registra por primera vez la presencia de Paraphrynus carolynae Armas, 2012 en los estados mexicanos de Guerrero y Querétaro; además, se registran nuevas localidades del estado de Michoacán. Palabras clave: Amblypygi, Phrynidae, amblipigios, distribución, México, Guerrero, Michoacán, Querétaro.
La fauna de Guatemala consta de 11 especies de amblipigios, que pertenecen a dos géneros de Phrynidae: Paraphrynus Moreno, 1940, con seis especies, y Phrynus Lamarck, 1801, con cinco. Una de éstas, Paraphrynus azteca (Pocock, 1894) fue registrada de Flores, Petén, hace casi un siglo, sobre la base de un único ejemplar; pero autores posteriores pasa...
Se describe una especie nueva de amblipigio del género Paraphrynus Moreno, 1940, procedente del suroeste de Chiapas, México, la cual había sido confundida previamente con Paraphrynus williamsi Mullinex, 1975. Ahora el género contiene 18 especies, 14 de ellas presentes en México.
The original spellings of Robopus bastardoi Kazantsev & Perez-Gelabert, 2009, Robopus velozi Kazantsev & Perez-Gelabert, 2013, and Erythrolychnia medranoi Kazantsev & Perez-Gelabert, 2009, are incorrect, because each species was dedicated to a woman, not to a man, and for this reason they are respectively corrected as Robopus bastardoae Kazantsev &...
Se describe de Guatemala una especie nueva del género Paraphrynus Moreno, 1940, muy parecida a Pa. raptator (Pocock, 1902), de la cual se distingue principalmente por la forma robusta y triangular del par de escleritos de los gonópodos femeninos. Con esta adición, la fauna de amblipigios de este país centroamericano asciende a 11 especies: seis de...
La presente obra ofrece un compendio de métodos para el inventario y el monitoreo de diferentes grupos de la biota terrestre en Cuba. Realizada con la colaboración de 71 especialistas, fue escrita fundamentalmente para estudiantes, biólogos de campo, profesionales y técnicos de la conservación, que desarrollen trabajos relacionados con las ciencias...
Se registra por primera vez la depredación, en vida libre, de la salamanquesa Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnés, 1818) por el Majacito Bobo Tropidophis pardalis (Gundlach, 1840). Además, se mencionan otros dos vertebrados, el lagarto Anolis porcatus Gray, 1841 (Squamata: Dactyloidae) y la ranita Eleutherodactylus planirostris (Cope, 1862), com...
Se registra el segundo caso en Cuba de depredación de lagartos anolinos por el Gorrión Común, Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) y se documenta fotográficamente. / The second case of predation of Cuban anole lizards by the House Sparrow, Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758), is herein recorded and supported by photos.
Some of the taxonomic characters originally argued for the Cuban monotypic genus Cubacanthozomus Teruel, 2007, are unsubstantial. Others were misinterpretations of drawings given in the original description of Schizomus rowlandi Dumitresco, 1973, the only source of taxonomic information on which Teruel (2007) based the new genus. Recently a new col...
A new species of camel-spider belonging to the genus Eutrecha Maury, 1982 is herein described based on one male and three females (the first known females into the genus) collected at the departments of Bolivar and Atlántico, Colombia, respectively. This is the first record of this genus from Colombia and the second species described for this taxon...
A new species of the woodlice genus Pseudarmadillo Saussure, 1857 is described from the Guanahacabibes Peninsula, near the westernmost point of mainland Cuba. It can be readily distinguished from its congeners by its weakly developed ornamentation on pereionite VII, body coloration and differences in external male reproductive organs. This populati...
We recorded a pregnant female of the Central American bark stripped scorpion Centruroides thorellii (Kraepelin, 1891), which arrived to England as a stowaway in the bag of a woman that previously visited the Departments of Sacatepéquez, Sololá and San Marcos, Guatemala. On January 2, this C. thorellii female had a litter of three off-spring and thr...
