Tityopsis rolandoi, Kovařík & Stockmann & Šťáhlavský & Yong, 2024

Kovařík, František, Stockmann, Mark, Šťáhlavský, František & Yong, Sheyla, 2024, Tityopsis rolandoi sp. n. (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Cuba, Euscorpius 400, pp. 1-15 : 5

Tityopsis rolandoi sp. n.

( Figures 1–50 , 53–58 , Table 1)

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Figure 1. Paratypes male (left) and female of Tityopsis rolandoi sp. n. in vivo habitus.

Figures 2–5: Tityopsis rolandoi sp. n. Figures 2–3. Male holotype in dorsal (2) and ventral (3) views. Figures 4–5. Female paratype in dorsal (4) and ventral (5) views. Scale bar: 10 mm.

Figures 6–13: Tityopsis rolandoi sp. n. Figures 6, 11–13. Male holotype, telson in lateral view (6), metasoma and telson lateral (11), dorsal (12), and ventral (13) views. Figures 7–10. Female paratype, telson in lateral view (7), metasoma and telson lateral (8), dorsal (9), and ventral (10) views. Scale bar: 10 mm (8–10, 11–13).

Figures 14–15: Tityopsis rolandoi sp. n., male holotype. Figure 14. Chelicera, carapace, tergites and part of right legs under UV fluorescence. Figure 15. Coxosternal area and sternites under UV fluorescence.

Figures 16–17: Tityopsis rolandoi sp. n., female paratype. Figure 16. Chelicera, carapace, tergites and part of right legs under UV fluorescence. Figure 17. Coxosternal area and sternites under UV fluorescence.

Figures 18–25: Tityopsis rolandoi sp. n. Figures 18–19, 22–25. Male holotype, chelicera, carapace, tergites I–III (18), coxosternal area and sternites (19), left legs I–IV in retrolateral aspect (respectively) (22–25). Figures 20–21. Female paratype, chelicera, carapace, tergites I–III (20), coxosternal area and sternites (21).

Figures 26–47: Tityopsis rolandoi sp. n., pedipalp segments under white light. Figures 26–36. Male holotype, chela dorsal (26), external (27), ventral (28) views, patella dorsal (29), external (30), and ventral (31) views, femur and trochanter external (32), dorsal (33), and ventral (34) views, movable (35) and fixed (36) finger dentition. Figures 37–47. Female paratype, chela dorsal (37), external (38), ventral (39) views, patella dorsal (40), external (41), and ventral (42) views, femur and trochanter external (43), dorsal (44), and ventral (45) views, movable (46) and fixed (47) finger dentition. Trichobothrial pattern is indicated by white circles in Figures 38–41, 43–44.

Figures 48–50. Tityopsis rolandoi sp. n., male holotype, pedipalp under UV fluorescence, dorsal (48), external (49), and ventral (50).

Figures 51–54: The chromosomes of Tityopsis sheylae (2n=22) (51, 52) and T. rolandoi sp. n. (2n=20) (53, 54). Postpachytene (51, 53) and ideograms (52, 54) (y axis - % of the chromosome length of the diploid set, lines indicate min.-max. values). Scale bar: 5 μm.

Figures 55–56: Figure 55. Type localities of Tityopsis species. Figure 56. Type locality of Tityopsis rolandoi sp. n.

Figures 57–58. Tityopsis rolandoi sp. n., female paratype with newborns (57) and juveniles after the first ecdysis (58).