Mesotityus vondangeli González-Sponga, 1981

de Armas, Luis F. & Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M., 2006, On the poorly known genus Mesotityus González- Sponga, 1981 (Scorpiones: Buthidae), Euscorpius 47 (47), pp. 1-9 : 6

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.18590/euscorpius.2006.vol2006.iss47.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5507217
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scientific name	Mesotityus vondangeli González-Sponga, 1981
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Mesotityus vondangeli González-Sponga, 1981 View in CoL

( Figs. 1 View Figures 1–4 , 5 View Figures 5–8 , 9 View Figures 9–10 , 14 View Figures 14–15 , 16 View Figure 16 , tables 1–4)

Mesotityus vondangeli González-Sponga, 1981:5–14 , 23, figs. 1–9, table; González-Sponga, 1984:67-69, fig; González-Sponga, 1996:130–131, figs. 298–303; Kovařík, 1998:115 (citation only); Fet & Lowe, 2000:181; González-Sponga, 2001a:30, 42, 50.

Type data. Male holotype (MCNC-784), one female paratype (MCNC-785), and one male paratype ( MAGS-3629 ), Hacienda La Trilla (10º27’N, 67º24’ W), Parque Nacional Henri Pittier , Distrito Girardot , Estado Aragua, Venezuela. Note: Holotype and paratype, supposedly deposited in the MCNC, were not found in that institution. We only examined male paratype MAGS-3629 GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Only known from type locality and another neighboring one ( Fig. 16 View Figure 16 ).

Diagnosis. Total length, 24–31 mm. Pedipalp neobothriotaxic type A-α (d 2 positioned on internal face of femur, d 2 absent on patella, and Eb 3 absent on chela); fixed finger with 12 or 13 rows of denticles; movable finger with 13 or 14 ( Table 1 View Table 1 ). Pectines with 12–14 teeth in female, and 13–15 in male ( Table 2 View Table 2 ). Other characters same as in the genus. Measurements, see Tables 3–4 View Table 3 .

Natural history. According to González-Sponga (1981, 1996) this species was found under stones, and the litter of humid tropical forest (200 m a.s.l.), sympatrically with species of the genera Tityus , Microtityus , and Ananteris . In “Rio Catá” (6 km E of “Hacienda La Trilla”) it was found in a similar habitat at 100 m a.s.l., sympatrically with Tityus clathratus , Títyus pittieri González-Sponga, 1981 , Tityus melanostictus Pocock, 1893 , Tityus sp., Microtityus sevciki González- Sponga 2001, and Chactas ferruginosus González- Sponga, 1982. In this last locality specimens were collected at night (22:00 hr) with help of UV light, on shrubs and branches of small trees, at 10–50 cm over the surface. The female:male ratio observed in this locality on April 2006 was 1:0.33.

Specimens examined. Three males and 14 females ( MHNLS), two males ( IES), two females ( MAGS- 6413 ), two females and one male ( MBLUZ), Río Catá (± 100 m a.s.l.), upstream from the dam, Parque Nacional “Henri Pittier”, Estado Aragua, Venezuela, 6 April 2006, F. J. M. Rojas-Runjaic .