Reddyanus jayarathnei
{{Short description|Species of scorpion}}
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Reddyanus jayarathnei is a species of scorpion in the family Buthidae endemic to Sri Lanka.{{Cite journal |last1=Šťáhlavský |first1=František |last2=Nguyen |first2=Petr |last3=Sadílek |first3=David |last4=Štundlová |first4=Jana |last5=Just |first5=Pavel |last6=Haddad |first6=Charles R |last7=Koç |first7=Halil |last8=Ranawana |first8=Kithsiri B |last9=Stockmann |first9=Mark |date=2020-11-06 |title=Evolutionary dynamics of rDNA clusters on chromosomes of buthid scorpions (Chelicerata: Arachnida) |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa118 |access-date=2021-08-31 |journal=Biological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=131 |issue=3 |pages=547–565 |doi=10.1093/biolinnean/blaa118|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last1=Kovařík |first1=František |last2=Šťáhlavský |first2=František |date=2019-12-07 |title=Revision of the genus Reddyanus from Southeast Asia, with description of five new species from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam (Scorpiones: Buthidae) |url=https://mds.marshall.edu/euscorpius/vol2019/iss295/1 |access-date=2021-08-31 |journal=Euscorpius |volume=2019 |issue=295 |pages=1–45 |doi=10.18590/euscorpius.2019.vol2019.iss295.1|s2cid=214363192 |doi-access=free |url-access=subscription }}{{Cite web |title=New scorpion taxa (Arachnida: Scorpiones) described in the journal "Euscorpius" in 2002–2020 |url=https://mds.marshall.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1330&context=euscorpius |access-date=2021-08-31 |website=Euscorpius - Occasional Publications in Scorpiology. 2020, No. 300}}
Etymology
The species name is named after V. A. Sanjeewa Jayarathne, the collector of the type specimen.{{Cite journal |last1=Charles University |last2=Kovařík |first2=František |last3=Lowe |first3=Graeme |last4=Monell Chemical Senses Center |last5=Ranawana |first5=Kithsiri B. |last6=University of Peradeniya |last7=Hoferek |first7=David |last8=Jayarathne |first8=V. A. Sanjeewa |last9=University of Peradeniya |date=2016 |title=Scorpions of Sri Lanka (Scorpiones: Buthidae, Chaerilidae, Scorpionidae) with description of four new species of the genera Charmus Karsch, 1879 and Reddyanus Vachon, 1972, stat. n |url=https://mds.marshall.edu/euscorpius/vol2016/iss220/1/ |access-date=2021-08-29 |journal=Euscorpius |volume=2016 |issue=220 |pages=1–133 |doi=10.18590/euscorpius.2016.vol2016.iss220.1|doi-access=free |url-access=subscription }}