Artigo Revisado por pares

Primer registro de Tityus trivittatus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) en la provincia de Mendoza (Argentina)

2009; Sociedad Entomológica Argentina; Volume: 68; Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

1851-7471

Autores

Florencia Fernández Campón, Susana Lagos Silnik,

Tópico(s)

Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies

Resumo

This note reports the first record on the scorpion Tityus trivittatus Kraepelin in Mendoza province in the locality of Campo Papa, Godoy Cruz. T. trivittatus is one of the species of scorpion of medical importance in Argentina, due to the fact that its neurotoxic venom can damage the nervous system and may even be fatal in some cases, especially among children

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