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Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 331 (1997). Short communication

Liocheles extensa, a replacement name for longimanus Locket, 1995 (Scorpiones: Ischnuridae)

N.A. Locket Department of Anatomical Sciences, University of Adelaide, South 5005, Australia

Since describing Liocheles Iongimanus Locket, 4.85, 5.0 for the two N.T. specimens. Though 1995, I have become aware that the name Werner's No. 111 is male, examination of the Iongimanus was given to a subspecies of L. hemispermatophore was not possible, the australasiae (Fabricius) by Werner (1939), thus specimen having been pinned dry originally. causing a nomenclatural problem. The two forms are clearly distinct and it is not Werner (1939) named his new subspecies necessary to synonymise them. Werner's L. Hormurus australasiae Iongimanus, which has not australasiae Iongimanus may be a valid subspecies of been subsequently mentioned in the taxonomic L. australasiae, but the present material is not literature, nor formally transferred to the genus sufficient to determine this for certain. Liocheles (Or V. Fet, personal communication), of which Hormurus is now accepted as a junior synonym (e.g., Koch 1977). Therefore, I here ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS transfer Werner's subspecies to the genus LiocheIes: I wish to thank Dr Victor Fet for drawing my Liocheles australasiae Iongimanus (Werner, 1939), attention to this problem of nomenclature, he and comb. novo Or Mark Harvey for their helpful discussion, and LiocheIes Iongimanus Locket, 1995, is therefore a Dr Franz Krapp of the Alexander Koenig Museum junior secondary homonym of LiocheIes australasiae for access to the type material in his care. longimanus (Werner, 1939) and thus requires a replacement name, for which I propose Liocheles extensa nom. novo To establish the identity of LiocheIes australasiae REFERENCES Iongimanus (Werner), I have now examined Koch, L.E. (1977). The , geographic Werner's types, which came from Montes Battak, distribution and evolutionary radiation of Australo­ Sumatra and are now in the collection of the Papuan . Records of the Western Australian Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Museum 5: 83-367. Koenig, Bonn. Locket, N.A. (1995). A new ischnurid from the Specimen 110 from that museum is female and Northern Territory, Australia. Records of the Western 111, male; the latter has been compared with the Australian Museum, Supplement 52: 191-198. two specimens, both male, of L. extensa from the Werner, F. (1939). Ueber einige Scorpion.e aus dem Museum Alexander Koenig. Festschrift zum Northern Territory. It is plain on inspection that Geburtstage von Professor Doktor Embrik Strand (Riga) the N.T. specimens have much more elongate 5: 361-362. pedipalps than Werner's specimen, and measurements of proportions confirm this. In Werner's No. 111 LjW of patella and hand are 2.14 Manuscript received 13 Febmary 1997; accepted 27 Febnlary and 3.63 respectively, compared with 2.73, 2.77 and 1997. Guide to Authors

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Records ofthe Western Australian Museum Volume 18 Part 3 1997

CONTENTS

CB. Frith and D.W. Frith Cl7lamydera guttata carteri Mathews, 1920 - an overlooked subspecies of Western Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchidae) from North West Cape, Western Australia 225 H. Smit Australian water mites of the genus Arrenurus, with the description of twelve new species from northern and western Australia (Acari: Hydrachnellae: Arrenuridae) 233 A.R.I Cruickshank and J.A. Long A new species of pliosaurid reptile from the Early Cretaceous Birdrong Sandstone of Western Australia 263 CC Lu and A. Reid Two new cuttlefishes (Cephalopoda: Sepiidae) from the North West Shelf, and a redescription of Sepia sulcata Hoyle, 1885 277 R.S. Craig A new cranioid brachiopod from the Eocene of southwest Australia 311 R.G. Bednarik An engraved slate fragment from Walyunga, Western Australia 317 M. Bertrand Sellnickiella (Sellnickiella) biunguiculata sp. nov.: a noteworthy species of Labidostomatidae from Australia (Acari: Actinedida: Labidostomatina) 317

SHORT COMMUNICAnONS D.R. King and J.E. Keirans Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) from varanid lizards in eastern 329 N.A. Locket Liocl7eles extensa, a replacement name for Liocheles longimanus Locket, 1995 (Scorpiones: Ischnuridae) 331

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