Scorpiops Peters, 1861

Sulakhe, Shauri, Deshpande, Shubhankar, Dandekar, Nikhil, Ketkar, Makarand, Padhye, Anand & Bastawade, Deshabhushan, 2020, A new cryptic species of Scorpiops Peters, 1861 (Scorpiones: Scorpiopidae) from the northern Western Ghats, India, Euscorpius 327, pp. 1-18 : 4

Scorpiops Peters, 1861

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TYPE SPECIES. Scorpiops hardwickii Gervais, 1843

Figures

Figures 1–6: Scorpiops telbaila sp. n. Figure 1. Female, paratype, INHER-SC-126, in vivo habitus. Figures 2–6. Male, holotype, dorsal (2) and ventral (3) views, sternopectinal area (4), metasoma V and telson in lateral view (5), and movable finger of chelicera, ventral fang, internal view (6).

Figures 7–8. Scorpiops telbaila sp. n., male, holotype in dorsal (7) and ventral (8) views under UV light.

Figures 9–12. Scorpiops telbaila sp. n., female, paratype, BNHS SC 178, in dorsal (9) and ventral (10) views, sternopectinal area (11), and metasoma V and telson in lateral view (12).

Figures 13–16: Scorpiops telbaila sp. n. Figures 13–14. Male, holotype, carapace under white (13) and UV (14) light. Figures 13–14. Female, paratype, BHNS SC 178, carapace under white (15) and UV (16) light.

Figures 17–19. Scorpiops telbaila sp. n., male, holotype, anterior margin of carapace (17), metasoma I-IV lateral (18), and pedipalp patella dorsal view with internal aspect tubercles (19) under UV light.

Figures 20–32: Scorpiops telbaila sp. n. Figures 20–26. Male, holotype, pedipalp chela dorsal (20), dorsoexternal (21, 22) and ventral (23), patella external (24), dorsal (25), and ventral (26) views. Trichobothrial pattern indicated by yellow circles. Figures 27–30. Left legs I-IV, retrolateral aspect. Figures 31–32. Male paratype, INHER-223, right hemispermatophore internal (31) and external (32) views.Abbrevations: F, foot/pedicel; T, trunk; C, capsule; S, stalk/lamina. Scale bar: 1 mm (31–32).

Figure 33. Distribution of Scorpiops species from Maharashtra (India).

Figures 34–47: Figures 34–39: Comparison of left pedipalps. Figures 40–45: Comparison of anal rim of metasoma V in dorsal view. Figures 34, 40. Scorpiops telbaila sp. n., male, holotype. Figures 35, 41. S. phaltanensis, male, holotype. Figures 36, 42. S. deccanensis, male, INHER-SC-86. Figures 37, 43. S. maharashtraensis, male, INHER-SC-180. Figures 38, 44. S. satarensis, male, INHER-SC-213. Figures 39, 45. S. tenuicauda, male, INHER-SC-214. Figures 46–47. Type locality of S. telbaila sp. n., basaltic boulder inside the dense semi-evergreen forest from where the type series is collected (46), view of Saltar khind (pass) and surrounding mountain range, exact locality of collection marked with black arrow on the image (47).

Figures 48-49: Figure 48. View of the Telbaila fort after which the new species is named Figure 49. Scorpiops telbaila sp. n. on the Telbaila fort under UV light (specimen not collected).

Figures 50-51: Figure 50. Discriminant function analyses projection on first two factor planes explaining 87.82% of variation among the five species. Figure 51. Maximum Likelihood phylogenetic tree (ML) for Scorpiops. Values along the nodes are bootstraps for 1000 iterations.

Figure 52. Bayesian phylogenetic tree for Scorpiops. Values along the nodes are Bayesian posterior probabilities for Bayesian Inference and Bayesian Poisson Tree Process (bPTP) respectively.