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Parabuthus Kalaharicus, a new species of scorpion from the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park in the republic of South Africa (buthidae, scorpionida)

Bruno H. Lamoraal
Koedoe | Vol 20, No 1 | a934 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/koedoe.v20i1.934 | © 1977 Bruno H. Lamoraal | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 03 August 1977 | Published: 27 August 1977

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A new species of scorpion Parabuthus kalaharicus, family Buthidae, is described from the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, in the northern Cape Province of the Republic of South Africa. P. kalaharicus is most closely related to P. granulatus (H. & E., 1828) and a key separating the two species is provided

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