21/03/2024
New insight into venom composition in Tityus melici and related medical important Tityus species
Yan Kalapothakis and co-workers recently published a study of the venom composition of the medical important Brazilian scorpion Tityus me...
07/03/2024
A new species of Scorpiops from Thailand
Wasin Nawanetiwong and co-workers have recently published a new species of Scorpiops Peters, 1861 (Scorpiopidae) from Thailand. Scorpiop...
07/03/2024
A new high altitude species in the genus Hottentotta from Tibet
Eric Ythier has recently described a new species of Hottentotta Birula, 1908 (Buthidae) from Tibet, China. Hottentotta leetzi Ythier, 20...
26/02/2024
A new species of Buthacus from Algeria
Salah Eddine Sadine and co-workers have recently published a new species of Buthacus Birula, 1908 (Buthidae) from ...
19/02/2024
A new species of Scorpio from Algeria
Eric Ythier and co-workers recently published an article describing a new species of Scorpio Linnaeus, 1758(Scorpionidae) from Atakor vol...
15/02/2024
Two new species of Euscorpius from Bulgaria and Greece
Parts of Europe still seem to be an inexhaustible source of new Euscorpius Thorell, 1876 (Euscorpiidae) species. Gioele Tropea and co-wo...
07/02/2024
An extensive revision of the genus Olivierus in Xinjiang, China
Victoria Tang a co-workers recently published a thorough revision of the genus Olivierus Farzanpay, 1987 (Buthidae) in Xinjiang, China. B...
10/01/2024
New scorpion taxa in 2023
Gerard Dupre has published a list of all new scorpion taxa described in 2023. He has identified 57 new species and two species that has be...
08/01/2024
Rich Ayrey - RIP
Yesterday I got the sad news from multiple postings on Facebook that Rich Ayrey is no longer among us. Most, if not all of us in the scor...
04/01/2024
A new species of Reddyanus from New Caledonia (France)
In a recent paper, Wilson Lourenco has described a new species in the genus Reddyanus Vachon, 1972 (Buthidae). Reddyanus kanak Louren...
03/01/2024
A new species of Centruroides from Guanaja, Islas de la Bahía, Honduras
Luis de Armas and Alex Cubas-Rodríguez have recently described a new species of Centruroides Marx, 1890 (Buthidae) from Guanaja, Islas de...
02/01/2024
A new species in the interesting genus Microbuthus from inland deserts of Mauritania
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Wilson Lourenco has recently published an article on the special genus Microbuthus Kraepelin, 1898 (Buthidae) with the de...