Scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) deposited in the arachnological collection of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Santo Domingo
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The MNHNSD collection of scorpions holds 255 specimens belonging to the families Buthidae (4 genera), Scorpionidae (Diplocentrinae, 2) y Hemiscorpiidae (Hormurinae, 1). Centruroides Marx, 1890, is the best represented genus with five species and 124 specimens. Most of specimens have been collected in the southwestern region of the Dominican Republic. A checklist of the species deposited in the collection is presented.
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arachnological collection, scorpions, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Santo Domingo
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Teruel, R. 2005. Nuevos datos sobre la taxonomía, distribución geográfica y ecología de los escorpiones de la República Dominicana (Scorpiones: Liochelidae, Scorpionidae, Buthidae). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 36, 165–176.
Fet, V. y M. E. Soleglad. 2005. Contributions to scorpions systematics. I. On recent changes in high-level taxonomy. Euscorpius. December 2005, no. 31.
Perez-Gelabert, D. E. 2008. Arthropods of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti): A checklist and bibliography. Zootaxa 1831: 1-530.
Teruel, R. 2005. Nuevos datos sobre la taxonomía, distribución geográfica y ecología de los escorpiones de la República Dominicana (Scorpiones: Liochelidae, Scorpionidae, Buthidae). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 36, 165–176.
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Carrero-Jiménez, S., & de los Santos, G. (2011). Scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) deposited in the arachnological collection of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Santo Domingo. Novitates Caribaea, (4), 131–133. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i4.165
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