Gint KovarIk, Lowe, PlIskovA et StAhlavsky 2013
Creators: name: Kovařík, František
name: Elmi, Hassan Sh Abdirahman
name: Šťáhlavský, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Scorpiones
Buthidae
Gint

description: Gint KovařÍk, Lowe, PlÍškovÁ et ŠťÁhlavský, 2013
(Figs. 1–130, Tables 1–2)
Buthus (Buthacus) (in part): Birula, 1917: 21.
Buthacus (in part): Levy, Amitai & Shulov, 1973: 125; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 81; KovařÍk, 2005: 1.
Gint KovařÍk et al., 2013: 1–18, figs. 1–4, 6–71; KovařÍk & Mazuch, 2015: 1–23, figs. 1–89;? Rossi, 2015: 53–63, figs. 1–10; KovařÍk et al., 2018: 1–41, figs. 1–202, tables 1–3; KovařÍk, 2018: 1–9, figs. 1–42, table 1; KovařÍk & Lowe, 2019: 1–13, figs. 1–62, table 1; Just et al., 2022: 855–899, figs. 1–7; KovařÍk, 2024: 1.
TYPE SPECIES. Gint gaitako KovařÍk et al., 2013.
DIAGNOSIS (♂ ♀). Total length 21–30.85 mm in males, respectively 26–38 mm in females; carapace trapezoidal, in lateral view preocular area not distinctly inclined towards anterior margin, level with or higher than postocular area; surface of carapace densely granular, with only anterior median carinae developed; ventral aspect of cheliceral fixed finger with two denticles; tergites densely granular, with three carinae of which lateral pair on I and II are inconspicuous; sternites III–VI with finely microdenticulate posterior margins, lacking larger non-contiguous denticles; pectinal tooth count 20–26 in males, 19–25 in females; pectines with fulcra, hirsute; hemispermatophore with small to medium sized, low, rounded, with flagellum separated from a 3-lobed sperm hemiduct, and with a projecting, scoop-like basal lobe; metasomal segments I– III with 8–10 carinae; metasoma I ventrally smooth, lacking ventromedial carinae; metasoma V with enlarged ‘lobate’ dentition on ventrolateral carinae which may be reduced; telson elongate, length/depth ratio 2.98–3.60 in males, vesicle with moderate posterior slope, not sharply inclined or truncated, lacking subaculear tubercle, aculeus shorter than vesicle; all segments of metasoma and pedipalps sparsely hirsute, with long setae in both sexes, dentate margin of movable finger of pedipalp with 8–10 rows of granules, each with one external and one internal accessory granule, 5–6 terminal granules (4–5 terminal and one proximal terminal); trichobothrial pattern orthobothriotaxic type A; dorsal trichobothria of femur arranged in b- configuration; pedipalp patella with 7 external trichobothria; patella trichobothrium d 3 internal to dorsomedian carina; tibial spurs present on legs III–IV.
SUBORDINATE TAXA. Gint abshiri sp. n.; G. amoudensis KovařÍk et al., 2018; G. banfasae KovařÍk & Lowe, 2019; G. calviceps (Pocock, 1900); G. childsi KovařÍk, 2018; G. dabakalo KovařÍk & Mazuch, 2015; G. derbiae sp. n.; G. gaitako KovařÍk et al., 2013; G. gubanensis KovařÍk et al., 2018; G. puntlandus KovařÍk & Mazuch, 2015; G. sahil sp. n.
NOTE. Gint maidensis KovařÍk et al., 2018 placed originally under the genus Gint was moved to monotypic genus Sanaag KovařÍk, 2024 as S. maidensis (KovařÍk et al., 2018) (see KovařÍk, 2024).
For species described by Rossi (2015), see KovařÍk et al. (2018: 12).
DISTRIBUTION (Fig. 127). Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Somaliland.
Gint abshiri sp. n.
(Figs. 1–48, 109–114, 127, 129, Table 1)
description: Published as part of Kovařík, František, Elmi, Hassan Sh Abdirahman & Šťáhlavský, František, 2024, Scorpions of the Horn of Africa (Arachnida Scorpiones) Part XXXIII Three new species of Gint from Ethiopia and Somaliland (Buthidae), pp. 1-25 in Euscorpius 392 on pages 2-3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14660203