Yin Shijin, Zhang Yunfeng, Pan Zhaohui, Li Shaobin, Di Zhiyong
College of pharmacy, South Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan 430074, P.R. China.
Department of Life Science, Tangshan Normal University, Tangshan 063000, P.R. China.
Zookeys. 2015 Apr 8(495):53-61. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.495.9085. eCollection 2015.
A new species, Scorpiopsingens sp. n., from Xizang, is described and illustrated. Scorpiopsingens sp. n. is characterized by yellow-brown color, large size (length of adults above 70.0 mm), small and dense granules on tegument, a pair of small median eyes, 17 external trichobothria (5 eb, 2 esb, 2 em, 4 est, 4 et), and 7 or 8 (usually 7) ventral trichobothria in the pedipalp patella, chela with a length/width ratio average of 2.2 in males and females, pedipalp chela fingers on adult females and males scalloped, pectinal teeth count 6-8, pectinal fulcra absent. With the description of this new species, the number of known species of Scorpiops from China is raised to 12. An updated identification key to Scorpiops from China is presented.
描述并图示了一种来自西藏的新物种——新种西藏蝎蛉（Scorpiopsingens sp. n.）。新种西藏蝎蛉的特征为：黄褐色，体型大（成年个体体长超过70.0毫米），体表有小而密集的颗粒，一对小的中眼，17根外部毛瘤（5根eb、2根esb、2根em、4根est、4根et），以及在螯肢髌节上有7或8根（通常为7根）腹侧毛瘤，螯肢的长宽比在雄性和雌性中平均为2.2，成年雌性和雄性的螯肢螯指呈扇形，栉齿数为6 - 8，无栉齿叶。随着这个新物种的描述，中国已知蝎蛉属物种的数量增加到了12种。还给出了一份更新后的中国蝎蛉属物种检索表。
