Two new Euscorpius species from central-western Greece (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae)

Abstract

Euscorpius is the first research publication completely devoted to scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Euscorpius takes advantage of the rapidly evolving medium of quick online publication, at the same time maintaining high research standards for the burgeoning field of scorpion science (scorpiology). Euscorpius is an expedient and viable medium for the publication of serious papers in scorpiology, including (but not limited to): systematics, evolution, ecology, biogeography, and general biology of scorpions. Review papers, descriptions of new taxa, faunistic surveys, lists of museum collections, and book reviews are welcome. Derivatio NominisThe name Euscorpius Thorell, 1876 refers to the most common genus of scorpions in the Mediterranean region and southern Europe (family Euscorpiidae). ICZN COMPLIANCE OF ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS:Electronic ("e-only") publications are fully compliant with ICZN (International Code of Zoological Nomenclature) (i.e. for the purposes of new names and new nomenclatural acts) when properly archived and registered. All Euscorpius issues starting from No. 156 (2013) are archived in two electronic archives:  Biotaxa, http://biotaxa.org/Euscorpius (ICZN-approved and ZooBank-enabled)  Marshall Digital Scholar, http://mds.marshall.edu/euscorpius/. (This website also archives all Euscorpius issues previously published on CD-ROMs.) Between 2000 and 2013, ICZN did not accept online texts as "published work" (Article 9.8). At this time, Euscorpius was produced in two identical versions: online (ISSN 1536-9307) and CD-ROM (ISSN 1536-9293) (laser disk) in archive-quality, read-only format. Both versions had the identical date of publication, as well as identical page and figure numbers. Only copies distributed on a CD-ROM from Euscorpius in 2001-2012 represent published work in compliance with the ICZN, i.e. for the purposes of new names and new nomenclatural acts.In September 2012, ICZN Article 8. What constitutes published work, has been amended and allowed for electronic publications, disallowing publication on optical discs. From January 2013, Euscorpius discontinued CD-ROM production; only online electronic version (ISSN 1536-9307) is published. For further details on the new ICZN amendment, see

Description of the adult male of Euscorpius feti Tropea, 2013 (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae), with notes on cave ecology of this species

“…E. aquilejensis (C.L. Koch, 1837), E. birulai Fet et al, 2014, E. giachinoi Tropea et Fet, 2015, and E. feti Tropea, 2013(Fet et al, 2014Tropea, 2013a;Tropea & Fet, 2015). All these species also clearly have more elongated features, more long-limbed than most of the other species of Euscorpius.…”

Systematics of the Relictual Asian Scorpion Family Pseudochactidae Gromov, 1998, with a Review of Cavernicolous, Troglobitic, and Troglomorphic Scorpions

“…Troglomorphies: pigmentation and sclerotization reduced; pedipalps, legs, and metasoma attenuate; telson vesicle enlarged. Previous assessments: it is quite possible that some Euscorpius species are more or less troglophilic, and, where an opportunity presents itself, spend part or all of their lives inside a cave or similar habitat (Tropea and Fet, 2015;Tropea and Ozimec, 2019); opportunistic eutroglophile/subtroglophile (Tropea and Ozimec, 2019); troglophile .…”