TY - GEN A1 - Sissom, W. David A1 - Graham, Matthew R. A1 - Donaldson, Taylor G. A1 - Bryson, Jr., Robert W. T1 - Two new Vaejovis C.L. Koch 1836 from highlands of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Durango, Mexico (Scorpiones, Vaejovidae) T2 - Insecta mundi : a journal of world insect systematics N2 - Two new species of the mexicanus group of Vaejovis C.L. Koch are described from the Madrean pine-oak forests of the Sierra Madre Occidental in the state of Durango, Mexico. These species, Vaejovis sierrae sp. nov. and Vaejovis mcwesti sp. nov., are distinguished from each other and the only other species of the mexicanus group known from this mountain range, Vaejovis montanus Graham and Bryson, by morphometrics, carinal development of the pedipalps, granulation of the metasoma, and body size. A key to the species of the mexicanus group from the Sierra Madre Occidental is provided. T3 - Insecta Mundi - 0477 KW - Chihuahua KW - Madrean pine-oak forest KW - new species KW - scorpion KW - taxonomy KW - mexicanus group Y1 - 2016 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/39726 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-397267 SN - 1942-1354 SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - Center for Systematic Entomology, Inc. CY - Gainesville, FL ER -