Monod Lionel
Département des arthropodes et d'entomologie I, Muséum d'histoire naturelle, route de Malagnou, 1, 1208 Genève, Switzerland.
C R Biol. 2014 Oct;337(10):596-608. doi: 10.1016/j.crvi.2014.07.009. Epub 2014 Sep 5.
The monotypic genus Hormiops Fage, 1933 is so far only known from two groups of granitic islands off the coasts of Peninsular Malaysia and Vietnam. Examination of newly collected material from both archipelagos and of the type series of Hormiops davidovi Fage, 1933 reveals previously disregarded morphological differences sufficient to assign the Malaysian specimens to a distinct species, described here as Hormiops infulcra sp. nov. An updated diagnosis of the genus, as well as a dichotomic key enabling the determination of Hormiops from its close relatives, Hormurus Thorell, 1876 and Liocheles Sundevall, 1833 are also provided. The phylogenetic position, distribution pattern, and ecology of these insular scorpions suggest that they are palaeoendemics, remnants of a previously more widely distributed lineage. A biogeographical model is proposed for the genus based on these observations and on a synthesis of palaeogeographical and palaeoenvironmental data currently available for Sundaland.
单型属霍氏蝎属（Hormiops Fage，1933）目前仅在马来西亚半岛和越南沿海的两组花岗岩岛屿上被发现。对来自这两个群岛的新采集材料以及1933年法热描述的大卫霍氏蝎（Hormiops davidovi）模式标本系列的研究揭示了先前被忽视的形态差异，这些差异足以将马来西亚的标本归为一个新物种，即本文描述的羽饰霍氏蝎（Hormiops infulcra sp. nov.）。本文还提供了该属的最新诊断，以及一个二分检索表，用于从其近亲——1876年的索雷尔肥尾蝎属（Hormurus Thorell）和1833年的李氏蝎属（Liocheles Sundevall）中鉴别出霍氏蝎属。这些岛屿蝎子的系统发育位置、分布模式和生态表明它们是古特有种，是先前分布更广泛的谱系的残余。基于这些观察结果以及对巽他大陆目前可用的古地理和古环境数据的综合分析，为该属提出了一个生物地理模型。
