Bothriurus paessleri

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

Bothriurus paessleri Fig. 14

Bothriurus paessleri Kraepelin, 1911: 91, 98-99, figs 8-9

Current combination.

Orobothriurus paessleri (Kraepelin, 1911)

Lectotype.

( Fig. 14 A–C ) ♂ ( ZMH-A0000904), Peru, [Arequipa Department], [Islay Province], Kataringo [Catarindo] [17°01 ’08” S, 72°01 ’54” W], Thal 1.5 ml nördlich von Mollendo [Valley, 1.5 miles North of Mollendo], 15.11.1906, Captain Richard Paessler leg., ded. 25.02.1907.

Paralectotypes.

( Fig. 14 D–F ) ♀ ( ZMH-A0000904), same data as lectotype; subadult ♂ ( ZMH-A0002231), Peru, [Arequipa Department], Thal Kataringo bei Mollendo [Valley of Catarindo, near Mollendo], 3.12.1907, Captain Richard Paessler leg., ded. 11.03.1908.

Remarks.

Kraepelin (1911) listed one male and three females from Kataringo. One male (holotype), one female (allotype) and two additional females were examined and listed for the type series by Maury (1975b: 20). Ochoa et al. (2011) listed 4 syntypes (1 male and 3 females) but only three specimens could be found in the ZMH collections and the fourth is lost. For reasons given above (see paragraph on Orobothriurus curvidigitus (Kraepelin, 1911)), the male is designated here as the lectotype and the remaining specimens are paralectotypes.

Remarks on collector.

See paragraph on Centromachetes titschacki Werner, 1939 above.

Figures

Figure 14. Bothriurus paessleri Kraepelin, 1911 [= Orobothriurus paessleri (Kraepelin, 1911)], male lectotype (A-C), female paralectotype (D-F): A, D dorsal aspect of habitus B, E ventral aspect of habitus C, F pro-lateral aspect of chela. Scale bars: 10 mm (A-B, D-E), 1 mm (C, F).