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COMPTES RENDUS BIOLOGIES
Volume 335, Issue 3, Pages 232-237Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2012.02.001
Keywords
Scorpion; New species; New subfamily; Troglobite; Laos; Khammouan karst
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A new species of scorpion belonging to the family Pseudochactidae and the genus Vietbocap is described from the Tham Nam Lot cave, located in the Laotian part of the Khammouan-Me Bang karst in Southeast Asia. Like the previously described species of the genus, Vietbocap lao sp. n. is a true troglobiont, but presents an even greater degree of adaptation to cave life, with a total lack of pigmentation and a very weak sclerotization of the tegument. This is the third troglobitic element known for the family Pseudochactidae. It represents the fifth known species of pseudochactid, four of which are from the Khammouan-Ke Bang karst system. Taking into account some marked differences between Vietbocap and the other two pseudochactid genera, a new subfamily. Vietbocapinae subfam. n., is proposed to accommodate this genus. (C) 2012 Academie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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