Campos of Pará in southern Amazonia, natural habitat of the new species. Photograph taken by the author in 1979. The region was largely threatened in recent years by anthropic action.

 
 
  Part of: Lourenço WR (2017) A new species of Physoctonus Mello-Leitão, 1934 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from the ‘Campos formations’ of southern Amazonia. ZooKeys 711: 67-80. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.711.20187