A new species of Tityus Koch, 1836 (Scorpiones: Buthidae), from the Cordillera Oriental (Colombia)
Abstract . – A new species belonging to the genus Tityus ( Atreus ) (family Buthidae, CL Koch, 1837) is described from the Colombian Cordillera Oriental on the basis of three specimens collected in La Vega (Cundinamarca department). Specimens of Tityus ( Atreus ) icarus sp . n . were collected in a patch of medium-altitude broadleaf rainforest, 1350 asl The new species shares affinities with T. ( Atreus ) antioquensis Lourenço & Otero-Patiño , 1998, and T. ( Atreus ) nematochirus Mello-Leitão, 1940, but can be readily distinguished from these two taxa based on morphometric differences and a combination of several characters. The new species is the 229th described in the genus.
