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My quest for knowledge of scorpions will linger/reside for some time with the gathering of accurate information of the proper identification, sexing, biology, regional distribution etc for the Pandinus spp (mainly imperator & cavimanus) and the Heterometrus spp (mainly spinifer, laoticus & longimanus). Primarily because these are readily available in the pet trade.
Now I'm a studious learner and request any insight and help in gathering resources, papers or books that are pertinent. I've been looking, in vain, for three papers referenced in a PDF, I'll note the reference and the papers "three papers. Belfield’s (1956) key reviewed traditional diagnostic differences in the pectinal tooth count and the surface ornamentation of the carapace, terga and pedipalp chela manus between P. dictator and the closely related P. imperator and P. gambiensis (as P. imperator gambiensis). Vachon (1974) presented a new key, wherein diagnostic differences in the numbers and relative positions of pedipalp trichobothria were demonstrated among the three species, transferred P. dictator to a new subgenus, Pandinopsis, and retained the other two species, which are evidently more closely related, in the subgenus Pandinus. Lourenço and Cloudsley-Thompson (1996) summarized the differences presented by Vachon (1974) and discussed the known distributional range of the three species."
Also ,for the Heterometrus, I have the PDFs by Fet "euscorpius/p2004_15.pdf " but is it the authority? G Carnell reference "Couzijn" where can I find his work? Are there others?
I just recently purchased "the Biology of Scorpions" Polis, and have no reservations to buy more books, please just point me in the direction to go (PS, I'm uni-lingual and only know English)
Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Dōmo arigatō, Thaedion
Now I'm a studious learner and request any insight and help in gathering resources, papers or books that are pertinent. I've been looking, in vain, for three papers referenced in a PDF, I'll note the reference and the papers "three papers. Belfield’s (1956) key reviewed traditional diagnostic differences in the pectinal tooth count and the surface ornamentation of the carapace, terga and pedipalp chela manus between P. dictator and the closely related P. imperator and P. gambiensis (as P. imperator gambiensis). Vachon (1974) presented a new key, wherein diagnostic differences in the numbers and relative positions of pedipalp trichobothria were demonstrated among the three species, transferred P. dictator to a new subgenus, Pandinopsis, and retained the other two species, which are evidently more closely related, in the subgenus Pandinus. Lourenço and Cloudsley-Thompson (1996) summarized the differences presented by Vachon (1974) and discussed the known distributional range of the three species."
Also ,for the Heterometrus, I have the PDFs by Fet "euscorpius/p2004_15.pdf " but is it the authority? G Carnell reference "Couzijn" where can I find his work? Are there others?
I just recently purchased "the Biology of Scorpions" Polis, and have no reservations to buy more books, please just point me in the direction to go (PS, I'm uni-lingual and only know English)
Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Dōmo arigatō, Thaedion
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