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FF68E3463B77097BFF60173B07D8FB09.text	FF68E3463B77097BFF60173B07D8FB09.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Ananteridae Pocock 1900	<div><p>Family  Ananteridae Pocock, 1900, stat. n.</p><p>Diagnosis. – Scorpions of very small to small size (9 to 41 mm); pectines without fulcra in most cases (except in a few  Tityobuthus species); pedipalp chela fingers with 6 or 7 longitudinal rows of granules; median ocular tubercle very distinctly anterior to the center of carapace; granulation generally weak to moderate; carination weakly marked on carapace, tergites with a median carina only, weak to moderate; telson with a fusiform shape in most cases, sometimes bulbous but with aculeus always shorter than vesicle; subaculear tooth usually strong, with a spinoid or rhomboid shape; tibial spurs present in the majority of species of all genera (except in a few  Tityobuthus species); secondary sexual dimorphism generally weak, most species having a similar morphology between males and females; trichobothrial pattern orthobothriotaxic, of type beta in most genera (except  Tityobuthus,  Troglotityobuthus and †  Palaeoananteris, with an alpha disposition).</p><p>Composition of the family  Ananteridae stat. n. (in order of description)</p><p>-  Ananteris Thorell, 1891 (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa- Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela)</p><p>-  Tityobuthus Pocock, 1893 (Madagascar)</p><p>-  Ananteroides Borelli, 1911 (Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania)</p><p>-  Lychasioides Vachon, 1974 (Cameroon)</p><p>-  Himalayotityobuthus Lourenço, 1997 (India, Nepal)</p><p>- †  Palaeotityobuthus Lourenço &amp; Weitschat, 2000 (Baltic amber)</p><p>-  Troglotityobuthus Lourenço, 2000 (Madagascar)</p><p>- †  Palaeoananteris Lourenço &amp; Weitschat, 2001 (Baltic amber)</p><p>-  Microananteris Lourenço, 2003 (French Guiana)</p><p>- †  Archaeoananteroides Lourenço, 2016 (Burmese amber)</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FF68E3463B77097BFF60173B07D8FB09	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Byg, Eric Ythier	Byg, Eric Ythier (2024): A new high-altitude scorpion species of the genus Ananteris Thorell, 1891 (Scorpiones: Ananteridae) from the Pico da Neblina, Brazil. Faunitaxys 12 (19): 1-9, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-12(19), URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15376946
FF68E3463B770979FEC5137C044EFAD1.text	FF68E3463B770979FEC5137C044EFAD1.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Ananteris lourencoi Byg 2024	<div><p>Ananteris lourencoi sp. n.</p><p>(Fig. 1-11)</p><p>ZooBank:https://zoobank.org/ 5473AF7F-EAB3-4730-8079-DB02031B8903</p><p>Holotype, ♂, Brazil,  Parque Nacional do Pico da Neblina, border with Venezuela, 2000-2300 m alt.,collected by local people (A. Gomez leg.), XII/2001, deposited in the MNRJ.</p><p>Etymology. – The specific name honours my colleague Dr. Wilson R. Lourenço, in recognition of his 50 years of scientific publications. Moreover, Dr. Lourenço has described 60% of the species of the family  Ananteridae stat. n., including more than half of the species of the genus  Ananteris .</p><p>Diagnosis. – Species of small size when compared with the average size of the other species of the genus; male with 15.4 mm in total length (see measurements after the description). General coloration yellowish with brownish pigmented zones on the body and appendages; chelicerae pale yellow with only a small variegated dark brown spot anteriorly, at the base of fingers. Chela fixed and movable fingers with 6-7 longitudinal rows of granules, respectively. Pectines of male holotype with 16-17 teeth; female unknown. Telson with a fusiform shape and strong and spinoid subaculear tubercle. Carinae and granulation weakly to moderately marked. Metasomal segments with 10-8-8-8-5 carinae. Trichobothriotaxy of type A- beta.</p><p>Description based on male holotype</p><p>Coloration. –Generally yellowish with brownish pigmented zones on the body and appendages. Carapace yellowish with brown spots, better marked anteriorly; lateral and posterior edges rather pale, with less spots; median ocular tubercle very dark, almost black. Mesosoma yellowish with confluent dark brown spots on tergites I to VI; tergite VII with a triangular central dark brown spot and dark brown spots with paler centre on lateral sides. Sternites greyish yellow; pectines pale yellow; genital operculum, sternum and coxapophysis yellowish, without pigmented spots. Metasoma with all segments yellowish; dorsal side of segments I to IV with a triangular brown spot; ventral and lateral sides of all segments with dark brown spots, better marked on their posterior half. Telson with vesicle yellowish; base of aculeus pale yellow, tip yellowish. Chelicerae pale yellow with only a small variegated dark brown spot anteriorly, at the base of fingers; fingers yellowish with brown spots on movable finger; teeth reddish. Pedipalp femur with dorsal side almost entirely marked with diffused brown spots, with few yellowish zones posteriorly; patella yellowish with longitudinal brown spots; chela hand yellowish with brownish spots; fingers brownish with tip pale yellow. Legs pale yellow, marked with diffuse brown spots.</p><p>Morphology. – Carapace with weakly marked granulation over the entire surface, less marked on the anterior part; anterior margin almost straight, with a minute median convexity; carinae (Vachon, 1952) weak to vestigial; furrows weak; median ocular tubercle distinctly anterior to the center of carapace; median eyes separated by less than one ocular diameter; three pairs of lateral eyes. Tergites with weakly marked granulation, similar to that of carapace, better marked posteriorly; axial carina moderately marked on all tergites; tergite VII pentacarinate, axial carina incomplete, median and lateral pairs of carinae complete. Sternum subpentagonal. Pectinal tooth count 17-18 in male holotype, female unknown; fulcra absent. Sternites weakly granular, almost smooth; spiracles linear, elongated. Metasomal segment I with 10 complete carinae, II-IV with 8 complete carinae, V slightly rounded with 5 complete carinae; all carinae moderately crenulate; dorsal carinae of segments I to IV with a spinoid granule on their posterior part; intercarinal spaces smooth. Telson elongated with a fusiform shape, smooth; ventral median carina marked with spinoid granules; aculeus with a subaculear tooth strong and spinoid. Pedipalp femur with five carinae almost complete; patella with carinae slightly less marked, sometimes incomplete; internal face of patella with 5-6 minute spinoid granules; chela with carinae weak to vestigial, almost always incomplete, made of scattered minute granules; fixed and movable fingers with 6-7 longitudinal rows of granules, respectively, almost straight or slightly oblique; separated by bigger granules; three granules in the extremity of the fingers. Legs with tibial spurs well developed. Cheliceral dentition characteristic of the family (Vachon, 1963). Trichobothriotaxy: orthobothriotaxy of type A- beta (Vachon, 1974, 1975).</p><p>Morphometric values (mm) of the male holotype.</p><p>- Total length (including the telson) 15.38. - Carapace length 1.97;</p><p>anterior width 1.11;</p><p>posterior width 1.67.</p><p>- Mesosoma: length 3.93.</p><p>- Metasomal segments</p><p>I: length 0.98, width 1.02;</p><p>II: length 1.02, width 0.95;</p><p>III: length 1.15, width 0.92;</p><p>IV: length 1.51, width 0.89;</p><p>V: length 2.43, width 0.89, depth 0.98.</p><p>- Telson: length 2.39.</p><p>- Vesicle: width 0.72, depth 0.59.</p><p>- Pedipalp femur, length 1.84, width 0.46;</p><p>patella, length 2.20, width 0.59;</p><p>chela, length 2.69, width 0.39, depth 0.43.</p><p>- Movable finger: length 2.03.</p><p>10</p><p>3. Right chelicera, dorsal aspect. 4. Metasomal segment V and telson, lateral aspect. 5 -9. Trichobothrial pattern. 5. Right femur, dorsal aspect. 6 - 7. Right chela, dorso-external (6) and ventral (7) aspects. 8 - 9. Right patella, dorsal (8) and external (9) aspects. 10. Cutting edge of right chela movable finger with rows of granules.</p><p>Relationships. –  A. lourencoi sp. n. can be readily distinguished from the geographically closest  Ananteris species, namely:</p><p>A. faguasi Botero-Trujillo, 2009 and  A. volschenki Botero-Trujillo, 2009 from Colombia,</p><p>A. dekeyseri Lourenço, 1982,  A. pydanieli Lourenço, 1982,  A. nairae Lourenço, 2004,  A. cryptozoicus Lourenço, 2005,  A. roraima Lourenço &amp; Duhem, 2010 and  A. palmari Botero-Trujillo &amp; Noriega, 2011 from Brazil,</p><p>A. venezuelensis González-Sponga, 1972,  A. turumbanensis González-Sponga,</p><p>1980 and  A. chirimakei González-Sponga, 2006 from Venezuela,  A. michaelae Lourenço, 2013 from Guyana (Fig. 12),</p><p>by the following main features:</p><p>(i) a small size, with a total length of 15.4 mm in male (males bigger with 20.8 mm in  A. michaelae, 22.1 mm in  A. pydanieli, 22.2 mm in  A. chirimakei, 23.0 mm in  A.turumbanensis, 23.4 mm in  A. roraima, 25.5mm in  A. dekeyseri and 40.9 mm in  A. venezuelensis; while male of  A. cryptozoicus is smaller with 10.81 mm);</p><p>(ii) chelicerae pale yellow with only a small variegated dark brown spot anteriorly, atthe base of fingers (uniformly yellowish withoutany spots in  A. cryptozoicus and  A.pydanieli; yellowish with variegated darker spots over the entire surface in  A. nairae,  A. palmari,  A. roraima and  A. turumbanensis, over the entire surface excepta thin zone at the base of fingers in  A.volschenki, and with an incomplete pattern basally and externally in  A. dekeyseri);</p><p>(iii) fixed and movable fingers with 6-7 longitudinal rows of granules, respectively (6- 5 in  A. cryptozoicus, 6- 6 in  A. nairae,  A. roraima and  A. michaelae);</p><p>(iv) pectinal tooth count 17-18 in male (15- 15 in  A. volschenki);</p><p>(v) telson with a fusiform shape, with length/depth ratio 4.05 (more elongated in  A. dekeyseri with length/depth ratio 6.0, less elongated in  A. turumbanensis with length/depth ratio 3.14),</p><p>(vi) metasomal segment II without any median lateral carinae (present, even incomplete, in  A. palmari,  A. roraima,  A. turumbanensis,  A. faguasi and  A. michaelae);</p><p>(vii) quite different trichobothrial pattern of dorsal aspect of femur, notably from  A. cryptozicus,  A. venezuelensis,  A. palmari and  A. turumbanensis (Fig. 11);</p><p>(viii) moreover, the new species was found at high altitude (between 2000-2300 m a.s.l.) while all other species were found between 50-260 m altitude, except  A. chirimaki (895 m) and  A. venezuelensis (between 900-1400 m) (Fig. 12, 13).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FF68E3463B770979FEC5137C044EFAD1	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Byg, Eric Ythier	Byg, Eric Ythier (2024): A new high-altitude scorpion species of the genus Ananteris Thorell, 1891 (Scorpiones: Ananteridae) from the Pico da Neblina, Brazil. Faunitaxys 12 (19): 1-9, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-12(19), URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15376946
