On the Tityus forcipula species group: redescription of Tityus forcipula (Scorpiones, Buthidae), description of a new Andean species, and notes on the taxonomy of the group Author Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo 0000-0002-3959-2205 Instituto de Biociências - Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Zoologia. Rua do Matão, travessa 14, 321, 005508 - 900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil & ricrocha @ usp. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3959 - 2205 ricrocha@usp.br Author Cabra-García, Jimmy 0000-0001-9263-4390 Departamento de Biología, Universidad del Valle, Ciudad Universitaria Meléndez, Calle 13 # 100 - 00, 760032, Cali, Colombia. Corresponding author: jimmy. cabra @ correounivalle. edu. co; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9263 - 4390 jimmy.cabra@correounivalle.edu.co text Zootaxa 2022 2022-06-21 5155 2 151 186 journal article 78128 10.11646/zootaxa.5155.2.1 be7f6620-4608-4fa7-9764-785fd401901a 1175-5326 6673332 F23CDF54-115F-4861-8EDB-DAFDF7810586

TABLE 5. Measurements (mm) of Tityus forcipula and Tityus moralensis sp. nov. Observation: all specimens, but 1402 and 1403 deposited at ICN, are deposited at MUSENUV. Bold numbers correspond to the museum codes.

Structure	Measure		Tityus moralensis					Tityus forcipula
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		2104 ♂	1402 ♀	1403 ♀	2108 ♀	2109 ♀	2111 ♀	436 ♀	2103 ♀	438 ♂
Body	Total length	55.03	57.99	53.38	57.93	61.55	56.25	61.73	62.30	53.81
Carapace	Length	6.00	6.29	5.71	6.43	6.50	6.35	7.00	7.00	5.71
	Anterior width	4.14	4.57	4.00	4.71	4.65	4.75	5.00	4.86	4.14
	Posterior width	6.29	7.00	6.57	7.29	7.90	8.00	7.71	7.86	6.29
	Eye diameter	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.53	0.60	0.55	0.63	0.63	0.60
	Interocular distance	0.57	0.70	0.60	0.67	0.70	0.70	0.57	0.57	0.60
	ocular diad width	1.23	1.43	1.30	1.43	1.40	1.40	1.57	1.53	1.37
Tergite I	Length	1.00	1.07	1.07	1.13	1.50	1.05	1.13	1.27	1.00
Tergite II	Length	1.33	1.53	1.47	1.53	1.55	1.00	1.47	1.60	1.20
Tergite III	Length	1.73	2.00	1.80	2.07	2.15	2.00	1.80	2.07	1.53
Tergite IV	Length	2.20	2.33	2.27	2.53	2.50	2.00	2.40	2.67	1.93
Tergite V	Length	2.33	2.73	2.53	2.80	3.00	2.50	2.80	2.80	2.13
Tergite VI	Length	2.47	3.00	2.80	3.00	3.60	2.50	3.07	3.07	2.27
Tergite VII	Length	4.27	4.73	4.33	4.73	4.75	4.25	4.87	4.93	4.13
Mesosoma	Total Length	15.33	17.40	16.27	17.80	19.05	15.30	17.53	18.40	14.20
Metasoma I	Length	4.20	4.20	4.00	4.10	4.00	4.50	4.30	4.50	4.10
	Width	3.90	3.90	3.60	4.00	4.10	4.30	4.00	4.10	3.70
	Height	3.20	3.50	3.20	3.40	3.50	3.50	3.60	3.80	3.60
Metasoma II	Length	5.10	5.10	4.80	5.00	5.15	4.80	5.40	5.50	4.90
	Width	4.00	4.10	3.70	4.10	4.40	4.45	4.10	4.30	3.80
	Height	3.40	3.60	3.30	3.40	3.60	3.50	3.70	3.90	3.50
Metasoma III	Length	5.80	5.70	5.20	5.60	6.00	6.00	6.10	6.00	5.50
	Width	4.50	4.60	4.10	4.70	4.90	4.75	4.40	4.50	4.00
	Height	3.60	4.00	3.60	4.10	3.75	4.00	4.10	4.40	3.80
Metasoma IV	Length	6.30	6.30	5.50	6.40	6.20	6.75	7.00	6.90	6.10
	Width	5.80	5.80	5.20	5.80	6.10	5.75	4.80	5.00	4.40
	Height	4.20	4.30	3.80	4.40	4.75	4.90	4.10	4.50	4.00
Metasoma V	Length	6.50	6.60	6.20	6.60	6.90	7.00	7.50	7.40	6.90
	Width	6.00	6.00	5.70	5.90	6.20	6.00	4.90	4.90	4.50
	Height	4.00	3.90	3.70	4.40	4.15	4.00	4.10	3.90	3.70
Metasoma	Length	27.90	27.90	25.70	27.70	28.25	29.05	30.30	30.30	27.50
		2104 ♂	1402 ♀	1403 ♀	2108 ♀	2109 ♀	2111 ♀	436 ♀	2103 ♀	438 ♂
Telson	vesicle length	4.00	4.20	3.70	3.90	4.50	4.55	4.80	4.50	4.20
	vesicle width	3.30	3.20	3.20	3.30	3.50	3.40	3.20	3.20	3.00
	vesicle height	2.50	2.50	2.30	2.60	2.70	2.80	2.60	2.50	2.40
	aculeus lenght	2.50	2.80	2.60	2.70	3.25	1.00	3.00	3.00	2.90
	total length	5.80	6.40	5.70	6.00	7.75	5.55	6.90	6.60	6.40
Metasoma+Telson	Total length	33.70	34.30	31.40	33.70	36.00	34.60	37.20	36.90	33.90
Femur	Length	6.00	5.90	5.50	6.10	6.50	6.30	6.90	7.00	5.90
	Width	1.80	1.90	1.80	1.90	1.75	2.00	1.90	2.00	1.80
Patella	Lenght	6.60	6.60	6.00	6.80	7.10	7.10	7.60	7.60	6.60
	Width	2.50	2.50	2.40	2.60	3.10	2.75	2.60	2.80	2.40
Chela	Length	12.40	12.20	11.30	12.20	13.20	13.50	13.80	13.40	11.50
	Width	3.90	2.80	2.40	2.80	3.00	3.05	2.60	2.60	3.10
	Height	4.00	2.90	2.50	2.90	2.75	2.65	2.60	2.80	3.10
	Length mov. fing.	7.90	7.90	7.40	8.20	8.25	8.70	9.50	8.90	7.20
	Length fix. fing.	6.40	6.70	6.40	6.90	8.00	6.75	8.20	7.70	5.90
	Length palm	5.10	4.20	4.00	4.20	4.50	5.25	4.60	4.50	4.60