Yağmur E.A.1, Hussen F.Sh.2, Karakurt S.3, Kurt R.4, Sipahioğlu O.5, Kartal İ.6 2024. Two new species of the genus Scorpio L., 1758 from Southеastеrn Turkey (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae) // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.33. No.4: 559–581 [in English].
1 Manisa Celal Bayar University, Alaşehir Vocational School, Alaşehir, Manisa, 45600, Turkey.
2 College of Science, Salahaddin University, Erbil, Iraq.
3 Selcuk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biochemistry, Konya, Turkiye.
4 Coxaven Scorpion Venom Production Company, Cizre Organized Industrial Zone, 6th Street, No: 24, Şırnak, Turkiye.
5 Göztepe Neighborhood, Ege Street, 3/15, Kadıköy, İstanbul, Turkiye.
6 Nuripaşa Neighborhood, 58. Bulvar Street, 144/5, Zeytinburnu, İstanbul Turkiye.
Ersen Aydın Yağmur ersen.yagmur@gmail.com ORCID 0000-0002-0396-3975
Fenik Sherzad Hussen fenik.hussen@su.edu.krd ORCID 0000-0001-8748-0470
Serdar Karakurt kserdar1@yahoo.com ORCID 0000-0002-4449-6103
Rıdvan Kurt dvan-kurt@hotmail.com ORCID 0000-0003-3014-5705
Özgün Sipahioğlu ozgunsipahioglu@gmail.com ORCID 0000-0001-7160-8775
İbrahim Kartal ibrhmbbt1034@gmail.com ORCID 0009-0002-3200-4164
* Corresponding author
doi: 10.15298/arthsel.33.4.11
ABSTRACT. Two new species, Scorpio karakurti sp.n. and S. sirnakensis sp.n. are described and illustrated from the Southеastеrn region of Turkey. S. karakurti sp.n. is detected from Batman and Diyarbakır provinces and can be distinguished from all species of the genus Scorpio by its higher pectinal teeth numbers, especially in males (10–11 in females and 11–15 in males). S. sirnakensis sp.n is detected from Şırnak province and can be distinguished by elongated chela and telson shape and genital operculum shape of females. The new species are compared with the known species of the genus Scorpio Linnaeus, 1758 in the Middle East.
KEY WORDS: Scorpiones, Scorpionidae, Scorpio, new species, taxonomy, Turkey.