Scorpiops vachoni (Zhu et al., 2005) Kovařík & Lowe & Stockmann & Šťáhlavský, 2020

Kovařík, František, Lowe, Graeme, Stockmann, Mark & Šťáhlavský, František, 2020, Revision of genus-group taxa in the family Scorpiopidae Kraepelin, 1905, with description of 15 new species (Arachnida Scorpiones), Euscorpius 325, pp. 1-140 : 126

Scorpiops vachoni (Zhu et al., 2005) , comb. n.

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Euscorpiops vachoni (in part) Zhu et al. in Qi et al., 2005: 18, figs. 62–77; Di et al., 2010 b: 52; Di et al., 2011b: 19–21, 69–72; Fet & Kovařík, 2020: 4.

= Euscorpiops validus Di et al., 2010 a: 14–21 , figs. 1–32 (Type locality: China, Yunnan Province, Honghe Prefecture (23.37°N 103.12°E )); Di et al., 2010 b: 52; Di et al., 2011b: 21, figs. 73–91; Di et al., 2014: 10; 15. Syn. n.

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TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. China: Yunnan Province, Mengla District , 21°29'N 101°33'E (21.48ºN 101.55ºE) ; MHBU.

DIAGNOSIS (♂ ♀). Total length 42–60 mm. Base color uniformly reddish brown. Pectine teeth number 6–8 in both sexes, fulcra absent. Pectines with three marginal and one middle lamellae. Patella of pedipalp with 17–18 (5 eb, 2 esb, 2 em, 4 est, 4–5 et) external and 8–11 ventral trichobothria. Chela of pedipalp with 4 V series trichobothria located on ventral surface. Chelal trichobothrium Eb 3 located in distal half of manus between trichobothria Dt and Est. Fingers of pedipalps undulate in both sexes. Chela length to width ratio probably 2.8–3.2 in both sexes. Pedipalp movable finger with IAD, which form second row, parallel with MD and there are also 6 ID and 11–13 OD present. Tarsomere II of legs with stout median ventral spinules and two pairs of flanking setae. Metasoma I–II with 10 carinae, and metasoma III–IV with 8 carinae. Telson elongate, and sparsely granulate; annular ring present.

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Figure 799. Geographic distribution of the family Scorpiopidae. The map plots locality