Two New Species of Euscorpius (Scorpiones, Euscorpiidae) from Bulgaria and Greece

G. Tropea; V. Fet; A. Parmakelis; I. Stathi

doi:10.15407/zoo2024.01.001

G. Tropea Via Gavinana 2, Rome, Italy
V. Fet Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1016-600X
A. Parmakelis Department of Ecology and Taxonomy, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens, Panepistimioupoli Zografou, Athens, Greece https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3092-4194
I. Stathi Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0747-1203

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/zoo2024.01.001

Keywords: Scorpiones, Euscorpiidae, systematics, phylogeny, Bulgaria, Greece

Abstract

Two scorpion species, Euscorpius petarberoni sp. n. (Bulgaria) and E. trichasi sp. n. (Greece), are described based on morphological and molecular evidence; E. petarberoni sp. n. is related to E. popovi Tropea et al., 2015, E. drenskii Tropea et al., 2015, and E. thracicus Kovařík et al., 2020, while E. trichasi sp. n. is related to E. kabateki Kovařík & Šťáhlavský, 2020.

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