Auyantepuia Gonzalez-Sponga , 1978

Ythier, Eric, 2015, A new species of Auyantepuia Gonzalez-Sponga, 1978 (Scorpiones, Chactidae) from French Guiana, ZooKeys 539, pp. 97-109 : 98

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scientific name	Auyantepuia Gonzalez-Sponga , 1978
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Taxon classification Animalia Scorpiones Chactidae

Genus Auyantepuia Gonzalez-Sponga, 1978 View in CoL

Revised diagnosis for the genus.

Scorpions of small size with a total length of 19 to 28 mm. General coloration reddish-brown to dark brown. Tegument smooth overall. Pedipalp chelal fingers very short, with trichobothria db and esb almost always at the same level; in some species these can be basal to trichobothrium Et5. Trichobothrial pattern of type C; neobothriotaxic ‘majorante’ (Vachon, 1974). Ventral aspect of metasomal segment V with strong granulations distally, which can form an arc.

Composition of the genus Auyantepuia

Auyantepuia scorzai (Dagert, 1957) (Venezuela)

Auyantepuia fravalae Lourenço, 1983 (French Guiana)

Auyantepuia gaillardi Lourenço, 1983 (French Guiana)

Auyantepuia sissomi Lourenço, 1983 (French Guiana)

Auyantepuia parvulus (Pocock, 1893) (Brazil)

Auyantepuia kelleri Lourenço, 1997 (French Guiana)

Auyantepuia mottai Lourenço & Araujo, 2004 (Brazil)

Auyantepuia amapaensis Lourenço & Qi, 2007 (Brazil)

Auyantepuia surinamensis Lourenço & Duhem, 2010 (Suriname)

Auyantepuia laurae sp. n. (French Guiana)