thumb | right | Kovarikia savaryi Kovarikia, is a genus of scorpion belonging to the family Scorpionidae. All described species are restricted to humid rocky microhabitats of southern California. Three species have been identified.
thumb | right | Kovarikia savaryi Kovarikia, is a genus of scorpion belonging to the family Scorpionidae. All described species are restricted to humid rocky microhabitats of southern California. Three species have been identified.
Major identification is from unique neobothriotaxy found on the ventral surface of the pedipalp chelae. A secondary lamellar hook found on the hemispermatophore. The mating plug barb is crescent shaped.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).