Kolotl, n. gen. (Scorpiones, Diplocentridae), a new scorpion genus from Mexico. (American Museum novitates, no. 3815)

dc.contributor.authorSantibáñez-López, Carlos E.
dc.contributor.authorFrancke, Oscar F.
dc.contributor.authorPrendini, Lorenzo.
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-20T15:52:07Z
dc.date.available2014-10-20T15:52:07Z
dc.date.issued2014-10-16
dc.description28 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe monophyly and phylogenetic position of Diplocentrus Peters, 1861, has remained ambiguous since the first published phylogenetic analysis of diplocentrid relationships, in which it was rendered paraphyletic by the placement of exemplar species from two other diplocentrid genera, Bioculus Stahnke, 1968, and Didymocentrus Kraepelin, 1905. The discovery of two diplocentrids with neobothriotaxic pedipalps, Diplocentrus magnus Beutelspacher and López-Forment, 1991, and Diplocentrus poncei Francke and Quijano-Ravell, 2009, from the central Mexican states of Guerrero and Michoacán, respectively, raised further questions about the limits of Diplocentrus. A recent phylogenetic analysis of 29 species of Diplocentrus and five exemplar species of the most closely related genera, based on 95 morphological characters and 4202 aligned nucleotides from DNA sequences of five markers in the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes, recovered the monophyly of Diplocentrus, excepting two neobothriotaxic species from central Mexico, justifying their removal from Diplocentrus. In the present contribution, Kolotl, n. gen. is created to accommodate the two species, Kolotl magnus (Beutelspacher and López-Forment, 1991), n. comb., and Kolotl poncei (Francke and Quijano-Ravell, 2009), n. comb., and both are redescribed.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2246/6554
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Museum of Natural History.en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAmerican Museum novitates, no. 3815.en_US
dc.subjectKolotl magnus.en_US
dc.subjectKolotl poncei.en_US
dc.subjectKolotl.en_US
dc.subjectDiplocentridae.en_US
dc.subjectScorpions.en_US
dc.subjectGuerrero (Mexico : State)en_US
dc.subjectMichoacán de Ocampo (Mexico)en_US
dc.subjectMexico.en_US
dc.titleKolotl, n. gen. (Scorpiones, Diplocentridae), a new scorpion genus from Mexico. (American Museum novitates, no. 3815)en_US
dc.title.alternativeKolotl.en_US

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