Vaejovidae Thorell, 1876

Sherwood, Danniella & de Armas, Luis F., 2023, On some teratological scorpions in the Natural History Museum, London and checklist of the scorpiological literature on morphological anomalies (Arachnida: Scorpiones), Euscorpius 381, pp. 1-20 : 14

Family Vaejovidae Thorell, 1876

Chihuahuanus crassimanus (Pocock 1898) ( Figures 18–19 )

MATERIAL EXAMINED. 1♀ ( NHMUK 015211777 ), Texas, [ USA] .

ANOMALY. The right leg IV has two claws arising from the femur, other segments are lacking ( Fig. 18–19 ).

REMARKS. See remarks under Hottentotta scaber .

Figures

Figures 14–19: Figure. 14. Anomalous leg IV (left-hand side) of adult female Pandinurus pallidus (Kraepelin, 1894). Figures 15–17. Anomalous telotarsus (left-hand side) of adult female Sahyadrimetrus scaber (Thorell, 1876), three different lateral views. Figure 18–19. Anomalous leg IV (right-hand side) of adult female Chihuahuanus crassimanus (Pocock 1898), general view of leg (18), close-up of anomaly (19). Scale bars = 1mm.