†Palaeogrosphus jacquesi Lourenço and Henderickx 2012 (scorpion)
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Arachnida - Scorpiones - Buthidae
Full reference: W. R. Lourenço and H. Henderickx. 2012. Another new sub-fossil species of scorpion of the genus Palaeogrosphus Lourenço, 2000 from Malagasy copal (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Euscorpius - Occasional Publications in Scorpiology 137:1-4
Belongs to Palaeogrosphus according to W. R. Lourenço and H. Henderickx 2012
Sister taxon: Palaeogrosphus copalensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Madagascar copal, Sambava area (Beigel collection), which is in a Holocene terrestrial amber in Madagascar
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Madagascar copal, Sambava area (Beigel collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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