Chactas lepturus intermedius

Monod, Lionel, Duperre, Nadine & Harms, Danilo, 2019, An annotated catalogue of the scorpion types (Arachnida, Scorpiones) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg. Part I: Parvorder Iurida Soleglad & Fet, 2003, Evolutionary Systematics 3 (2), pp. 109-200 : 109

Chactas lepturus intermedius Fig. 17

Chactas lepturus intermedius Kraepelin, 1912b: 64, 67

Current senior synonym.

Chactas lepturus Thorell, 1876 [Synonymized by Lourenço 1997h: 84-85]

Lectotype.

( Fig. 17 A–B ) ♀ ( ZMH-A0003047), Columbien [Colombia], between Boca del Monte and Tambo [near Bogota] [4°41 ’28” N, 74°21 ’11” W], 1900 m, Otto Fuhrmann leg., ded. 10.1911.

Paralectotypes.

2 ♀, 1 subadult ♂ ( Fig. 17 C–D ), 2 juveniles ( ZMH-A0001869), same data as lectotype.

Remarks.

Kraepelin (1912b) originally described this taxon as a subspecies of C. lepturus and listed the type locality as "Boca del Monte bei Bogota in Kolumbien, Ostkordillere, in 2400 Höhe”. Although the altitude is different than the one mentioned on the label, the locality is the same. The present specimens are considered here as types. One female is designated as the lectotype and the others are paralectotypes.

Remarks on collector.

Otto Fuhrmann (1871-1945) was a Swiss parasitologist specializing in helminthology ( Delachaux and Baer 1914). He travelled to Columbia in 1910 with Eugene Mayor (1876-1976). They stayed in La Camelia (part of the coffee plantation owned by Karl Bimberg, German consul in Medellin, and located south west of Angelopolis) from August to September 1910 and visited Bogota and its surroundings in October 1910 ( Fuhrmann and Mayor 1914; see map p. 117).

Figures

Figure 17. Chactas lepturus intermedius [= Chactas lepturus Thorell, 1876], female lectotype (A-B), subadult male paralectotype (C-D): A, C dorsal aspect of habitus B, D ventral aspect of habitus. Scale bars: 10 mm.