Somalicharmus Kovarik 1998
Creators: name: Kovařík, František
name: Lowe, Graeme
name: Šťáhlavský, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Scorpiones
Buthidae
Somalicharmus

description: Somalicharmus Kovařík, 1998   
(Figs. 78–122, 125–155, Table 2)  
 Somalicharmus Kovařík, 1998: 116, 119–122, figs. 9– 15; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 224; Soleglad & Fet, 2003b: 88, Tab. 9; Fet & Soleglad, 2005: 11; Fet et al., 2005: 3, 14, 22, Tab. 1, Fig. 23; Prendini & Wheeler, 2005: 481; Dupré, 2007: 10, 13, 16; Kovařík et al., 2007: 201, 205–208, fig. 15; Kovařík, 2009: 21, 31; Mirza et al., 2016: 1.   
 EMENDED DIAGNOSIS. Total length 18.5– 25 mm. Pedipalps orthobothriotaxic type A (Vachon, 1974); dorsal trichobothria of femur arranged in α -configuration (Vachon, 1975) (Fig. 100); trichobothrium d 2 of femur fenced by granules associated with dorsointernal carina, position may appear either dorsal or internal to carina; patella with dorsomedian carina absent, but trichobothrium d 3 located external to d 4; chela manus with V 2 displaced externally relative to V 1; db on distal manus, dt on base of fixed finger (Fig. 93); it on base of fixed finger (Figs. 95, 111). Pectines with fulcra, hirsute (Fig. 112). Pectine teeth number 11–14. Basal middle lamella of pectines extremely dilated and rounded in females (Figs. 116 vs. 115). Males with genital papillae. Hemispermatophore flagelliform with lobes of capsule in 2+1 configuration, basal lobe enlarged, elongate, median lobe not fused to flagellum. Sternum subpentagonal (Figs. 115, 116, 122). Long tibial spurs present on third and fourth legs (Figs. 119–120). Chelicera with reduced dentition, movable finger ventral margin smooth, fixed finger margin with 2 non-distal denticles, lacking bicusp, ventral surface of fixed finger without denticles (Figs. 125–128). Carapace granulated without carinae (Figs. 113–114, 121), in lateral view with entire dorsal surface horizontal or nearly so. Lateral eyes number 2 pairs (type 2A layout, Loria & Prendini, 2014). Movable finger of pedipalp with 8–9 rows and fixed finger with 7–8 rows of granules forming imbricated diagonal rows, with external and internal accessory granules (Figs. 101, 110–111). Tergites densely granulate in males (Fig. 113, 121), more so than in females (Fig. 114); carinae absent or barely indicated by series of more closely spaced granules. Stigmata small, subovoid or hemielliptic slits. Metasoma stout, segments I with 10 carinae, II–III with 8 carinae; segments I–III with ventrosubmedian and ventrolateral carinae strong, the latter posteriorly converging and connecting to form a U-shaped margin carina (Figs. 84, 88); ventral surfaces of segments IV–V coarsely granulated without carinae (Figs. 84, 88, 92). Telson strongly swollen, nearly spherical, with a minute subaculear tubercle, its ventral surface densely hirsute with long setae, covered with prominent, pointed, darkbrown to black granules, aculeus shorter than vesicle. (Figs. 82, 86, 90–92).   
 TYPE SPECIES. Somalicharmus whitmanae Kovařík, 1998, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Kovařík, František, Lowe, Graeme & Šťáhlavský, František, 2016, Scorpions of the Horn of Africa (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Part IX. Lanzatus, Orthochirus, and Somalicharmus (Buthidae), with description of Lanzatus somalilandus sp. n. and Orthochirus afar sp. n., pp. 1-38 in Euscorpius 232 on pages 18-19