| Vaejovis monticola Sissom 1989 Vaejovis monticola Sissom, 1989a: 147-149, fig. 46-53, 78-79; Kovarík, 1998: 147; González Santillán & Sissom, 2004: 11; Beutelspacher, 2000: 97, 139, 141, 153, map 77; Sissom, 2000: 542; Soleglad & Fet, 2005: 7. Vaejovis dugesi (MIS): Beutelspacher, 2000: 80, 142, map 54 (part); Ponce Saavedra & Beutelspacher, 2001: 46, 48, 49, 72-73, 101, Maps 16, 17. ?Vaejovis granulatus (MIS): Sissom, 1989a: 135 (part, record from Michoacán only); Sissom, 2000: 542 (part, record from Michoacán only). HOLOTYPE: Vaejovis monticola Sissom Holotype: F (MCZ), northern side of Nevado de Colima, Jalisco, México. Original description: Vaejovis mexicanus smithi Pocock, 1902: 9. Subsequent Accounts distribution: NORTH AMERICA. México (Colima, southern Jalisco, Michoacán). Published Records: Vaejovis monticola Sissom Paratypes: 1F (MCZ), Volcan de Colima, Colima, México; 2F (MCZ), same locality as holotype; 1F (WDS), Nevado de Colima, Jalisco, México; 1M (AMNH), Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. notes: Beutelspacher's (2000) records of V. dugesi and V. granulatus from Michoacán are based upon misidentified specimens of V. monticola (W.D. Sissom, E. González Santillán, unpublished data). The types of Parabroteas montezuma have been studied by M. E. Soleglad (pers. comm.,1998), and it is his opinion that P. montezuma is conspecific with Vaejovis mexicanus mexicanus. Consequently, the type locality for P. montezuma, originally questioned by Penther himself, seems dubious. Beutelspacher's (2000) records of V. mexicanus (apparently meaning the subspecies mexicanus) from Morelos, San Luis Potosí, and Tamaulipas are probably all erroneous; the latter is based on a record from Cueva San Rafael de los Castros of "Vaejovis sp. (mexicanus group)" from Reddell & Mitchell (1971a). |