Gint Kovarik, Lowe, Pliskova et Stahlavsky 2013
Creators: name: Kovařík, František
name: Lowe, Graeme
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Scorpiones
Buthidae
Gint

description: Gint Kovařík, Lowe, Plíšková et Šťáhlavský, 2013
(Figs. 1–62, Table 1)
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.
TYPE SPECIES. Gint gaitako Kovařík et al., 2013.
ETYMOLOGY. Gint (masculine) means scorpion in Amharian, the official language of Ethiopia.
DISTRIBUTION (Fig. 62). Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Somaliland.
DIAGNOSIS. Total length up to 25 mm (male) or 50 mm (female); 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 (Fig. 51); tergites densely granular, with three carinae of which lateral pair on I and II are inconspicuous; sternites III–VI with finely micro-denticulate posterior margins, lacking larger noncontiguous denticles; pectinal tooth number 19–31; pectines with fulcra, hirsute; hemispermatophore with flagellum separated from a 3-lobed sperm hemiduct, and with a projecting, scoop- or hook-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 rather elongate (except for G. maidensis), 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 subterminal and one distal terminal); trichobothrial pattern orthobothriotaxic type A; dorsal trichobothria of femur arranged in β- 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 amoudensis Kovařík et al., 2018; Gint banfasae sp. n.; Gint calviceps (Pocock, 1900); Gint childsi Kovařík, 2018; Gint dabakalo Kovařík et Mazuch, 2015; Gint gaitako Kovařík et al., 2013; Gint gubanensis Kovařík et al., 2018; Gint maidensis Kovařík et al., 2018; Gint puntlandus Kovařík et Mazuch, 2015. For species described by Rossi (2015) see Kovařík et al. (2018: 12).
description: Published as part of Kovařík, František & Lowe, Graeme, 2019, Scorpions of the Horn of Africa (Arachnida Scorpiones) Part XVIII Gint banfasae sp n from Somaliland (Buthidae), pp. 1-14 in Euscorpius 272 on pages 1-5, DOI: 10.18590/euscorpius.2019.vol2019.iss272.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5510156