Hemiscorpius tellinii Borelli, 1904

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Hemiscorpius tellinii Borelli, 1904

( Figs. 102–117 , 125 , 131 )

Hemiscorpion tellinii Borelli, 1904: 3 ; Moriggi, 1941: 93; Caporiacco, 1947: 232.

Hemiscorpius tellinii : Birula, 1917: 215; Vachon, 1977: 213; Vachon, 1979: 59; KovařÍk, 1998: 136; Fet, 2000: 430; Lowe, 2010: 22; Lourenço, 2011a: 282; KovařÍk & Mazuch, 2011: 4; Chiarle et al., 2012: 22.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Eritrea, Halibaret ; MZUT.

TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED ( MZUT). Eritrea, Halibaret , 1♀ (holotype) .

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED ( FKCP). Eritrea, route Massawa to Gahtiela, 15°36'03.7''N 39°16'38.4''E, 115 m a. s. l., 8.XI.2015, (15EL, DNA No. 918), 1♂ juv., leg. F. KovařÍk.

DISTRIBUTION. Eritrea ( Fig. 131 ).

Figures

Figures 102–110: Hemiscorpius tellinii. Figures 102–106. Female holotype in dorsal (102) and ventral (103) views. Right pedipalp chela and patella dorsal (104), ventral (106) and chela external (105) views. Figures 107–110. Juvenile male from Eritrea. Locality 15EL, left pedipalp in ventral (107), external (108) and dorsal (109) views, dentate margins of movable finger (110).

Figures 111–117: Hemiscorpius tellinii, juvenile male from Eritrea. Locality 15EL in dorsal (111) and ventral (112) views, carapace and tergites I–II (113), sternopectinal area and sternite III (114), metasoma and telson in lateral (115), dorsal (116), and ventral (117) views. Scale bar: 10 mm (111–112).

Figures 118–130: Hemiscorpius ssp. Figures 118–125. Pedipalp chela in dorsal views, H. huluul sp. n., female holotype (118), H. lipase, female holotype (119) and male from Djibouti, locality 23DB (120), H.novaki, female from Somaliland, Osali (121) and male from Somaliland, Gargara Galbeed (122), H. somalicus, female from Somalia (Puntland), Bender Cassim (123) and male holotype (124), and H. tellinii female holotype (125). Figures 126–130. Metasoma and telson in dorsal views, H. huluul sp. n., female holotype (126), H. lipase, female holotype (127) and male from Djibouti, locality 23DB (128), H. novaki, female from Somaliland, Osali (129) and male from Somaliland, Gargara Galbeed (130).

Figures 131–132: Figure 131. Map showing known distribution of the genus Hemiscorpius in Horn of Africa (Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia, and Somaliland). Figure 132. Somaliland, vicinity of Huluul Village, type locality of Hemiscorpius huluul sp. n.