Uroplectes, Peters, 1861

Prendini, Lorenzo, 2015, Three new Uroplectes (Scorpiones: Buthidae) with punctate metasomal segments from tropical central Africa, American Museum Novitates 2015 (3840), pp. 1-32 : 28

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1206/3840.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5874471
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NEW AND OLD SYNONYMS IN UROPLECTES View in CoL

During the present investigation, the new material was compared with the types of U. chubbi and the following taxa, either putatively related to U. chubbi or originating from the same geographical region, to verify that the new species in question had not been previously described: Scorpiobuthus apatris Werner, 1939 , synonymized with U. chubbi by Fet and Sissom (1997); Uroplectes andreae Pocock, 1899 ; Uroplectes chubbi briodi Schenkel, 1932 ; Uroplectes jutrzenkai Penther, 1900 , synonymized with Uroplectes vittatus ( Thorell, 1876) by Hewitt (1918) and later by Newlands (1970); and Uroplectes schubotzi Kraepelin, 1929 . Based on comparison of these specimens with one another (only digital photos of the holotype of U. schubotzi were available) and with nontype material, two synonyms were confirmed and two are newly presented.

References

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Werner, F. 1939. Ueber einige Scorpione aus dem Museum Alexander Koenig. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstage von Professor Dr. Embrik Strand 5: 361 - 362.