{"title":"Front Cover","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/jzs.12577","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Cover caption</b>: The cover image shows an adult specimen of <i>Euscorpius cf. lagostae</i>, one of the newly discovered cryptic lineages within <i>Euscorpius hadzii</i> species complex which is found at several localities in southern Dalmatia. The phylogenetic analyses revealed two deeply divergent lineages (E. hadzii groups 1 and 2) within <i>E. hadzii</i> s.l., and within the strictly Mediterranean, thermophilic, epigean E. hadzii 1 group (Eh1), two sublineages, Eh1a and Eh1b. The latter corresponds to the population of <i>E. hadzii</i> from Lastovo island (formerly Euscorpius carpaticus lagostae), which is in the present study elevated to species level as <i>Euscorpius lagostae</i> Di Caporiacco, 1950, stat. nov. The high genetic distances in the mitochondrial COI gene found between <i>E. lagostae and Euscorpius cf. lagostae</i> (p-distances up to 5.4 %) imply that latter lineage represents yet another species. <i>Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research</i>, Volume 59, Issue 8, Pages 1824–1849, Martina Podnar, Irena Grbac, Nikola Tvrtković, Christoph Hörweg, Elisabeth Haring: DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12562.\nPhoto credit: Nikola Tvrtković, Graphics credit: Denis Lešić\n\n <figure>\n <div><picture>\n <source></source></picture><p></p>\n </div>\n </figure>\n </p>","PeriodicalId":91350,"journal":{"name":"","volume":"59 8","pages":"i"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jzs.12577","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jzs.12577","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Cover caption: The cover image shows an adult specimen of Euscorpius cf. lagostae, one of the newly discovered cryptic lineages within Euscorpius hadzii species complex which is found at several localities in southern Dalmatia. The phylogenetic analyses revealed two deeply divergent lineages (E. hadzii groups 1 and 2) within E. hadzii s.l., and within the strictly Mediterranean, thermophilic, epigean E. hadzii 1 group (Eh1), two sublineages, Eh1a and Eh1b. The latter corresponds to the population of E. hadzii from Lastovo island (formerly Euscorpius carpaticus lagostae), which is in the present study elevated to species level as Euscorpius lagostae Di Caporiacco, 1950, stat. nov. The high genetic distances in the mitochondrial COI gene found between E. lagostae and Euscorpius cf. lagostae (p-distances up to 5.4 %) imply that latter lineage represents yet another species. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Volume 59, Issue 8, Pages 1824–1849, Martina Podnar, Irena Grbac, Nikola Tvrtković, Christoph Hörweg, Elisabeth Haring: DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12562.
Photo credit: Nikola Tvrtković, Graphics credit: Denis Lešić