A new Vaejovis C.L. Koch from the Sierra Madre Occidental of Durango, Mexico (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae)

Authors

Jessica S. Azzinnari, West Texas A&M UniversityFollow
Robert W. Bryson, University of WashingtonFollow
Matthew R. Graham, Eastern Connecticut State UniversityFollow
Carlos Solís-Rojas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
W. David Sissom, West Texas A&M UniversityFollow

Date of this Version

2-26-2021

Citation

Azzinnari JS, Bryson RW Jr., Graham MR, Solís-Rojas C, Sissom WD. 2021. A new Vaejovis C.L. Koch from the Sierra Madre Occidental of Durango, Mexico (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae). Insecta Mundi 0852: 1–12.

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Abstract

A new montane species of Vaejovis C.L. Koch (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae) is described from the Si­erra Madre Occidental of Durango, Mexico. Vaejovis baggins Azzinnari, Bryson, Graham, Solís-Rojas, and Sissom, new species, is similar to mexicanus group species in the mountain range, including V. montanus Graham and Bryson, V. sierrae Sissom, Graham, Donaldson, and Bryson, and V. mcwesti Sissom, Graham, Donaldson, and Bryson, but differs from these species based on aspects of body size, pedipalp carination, chelae granulation, morphometrics, and setal patterns on the metasoma. A molecular clock estimate indi­cates that the new species shared a common ancestor with V. mcwesti during the late Miocene or Pliocene.