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Androctonus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807)

Pirali-Kheirabadi, Khodadad, Navidpour, Shahrokh, Fet, Victor, Kovařík, František & Soleglad, Michael E., 2009, Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Part V. Chahar Mahal & Bakhtiyari Province, Euscorpius 78 (78), pp. 1-23 : 3

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 Androctonus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807)
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Androctonus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807) View in CoL

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Scorpio crassicauda Olivier, 1807: 97 .

Buthus crassicauda : Simon, 1872: 247 (in part); Simon, 1879: 99; Simon, 1892: 83; Kraepelin, 1899: 16; Pocock, 1902: 373; Kraepelin, 1913: 124; Lampe, 1918: 190.

Androctonus crassicauda View in CoL : Kraepelin, 1891: 175 (in part); Vachon, 1951: 343; Khalaf, 1962: 1; Khalaf, 1963: 60; Habibi, 1971: 42; Farzanpay & Pretzmann, 1974: 215; Pérez Minocci, 1974: 17; Vachon, 1974: 909; Vachon, 1979: 31; Farzanpay, 1987: 141; Farzanpay, 1988: 36; Fet, 1989: 78; Sissom, 1994: 36; Al-Safadi, 1992: 96; Amr & El-Oran, 1994: 187; Dupré et al., 1998: 59; Kovařík, 1998: 104; Crucitti, 1999: 83; Kabakibi et al., 1999: 80; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 72; Stathi & Mylonas, 2001: 288; Kovařík, 2002: 5; Crucitti & Vignoli, 2002: 439; Vignoli et al., 2003: 2; Fet & Kovařík, g: 180; Kovařík & Whitman, 2005: 105; Lourenco, 2005: 149; Hendrixson, 2006: 38; Akbari, 2007: 76; Navidpour et al., 2008a: 5; Navidpour et al., 2008b: 3; Navidpour et al., 2008c: 3; Navidpour et al., 2008d: 3.

Prionurus crassicauda : Pocock, 1895: 292; Tullgren, 1909: 2; Birula, 1904: 29; Birula, 1905a: 120; Masi, 1912: 91; Penther, 1912: 110.

Androctonus crassicauda crassicauda View in CoL : Vachon, 1959: 124; Vachon, 1966: 210; Habibi, 1971: 42; Vachon, 1979: 34; Levy & Amitai, 1980: 24; Kovařík, 1997a: 49.

= Prionurus crassicauda orientalis Birula, 1900a: 355 ; Birula, 1903: 67 (syn. by Fet, 1989: 79)

Buthus (Prionurus) crassicauda orientalis View in CoL : Birula, 1917: 93, 240.

Buthus crassicauda orientalis View in CoL : Kraepelin, 1913: 124.

Androctonus crassicauda orientalis : Vachon, 1959: 124; Vachon, 1966: 210; Habibi, 1971: 42; Pérez Minocci, 1974: 18.

Androctonus amoreuxi baluchicus View in CoL : Kovařík, 1997a: 39 (see Vignoli et al., 2003: 4).

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Kashan , Persia, now Iran, Esfahan Province ; MNHN.

CHAHAR MAHAL & BAKHTIYARI PROVINCE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Iran, Chahar Mahal & Bakhtiyari Province , Lordegan, Aloni Village, 31°32'18"N 51°04'03"E, 1883 m a.s.l. (Locality No. SH-3), XII.2007, 2♂ 1♀, RRLS, 1♀, FKCP, leg. Pirali GoogleMaps ; Lordegan , Giloreh and Sini Villages, 31°32'02"N 51°02'38"E, 1856 m a.s.l. (Locality No. SH-12-13), XII.2007, 2♀, RRLS GoogleMaps , 1im., FKCP, leg. Pirali.

DISTRIBUTION: Widespread in Iran, found in most provinces. Recorded also from Armenia (Kraepelin, 1899: 17), Azerbaijan ( Fet, 1989: 79), Bahrain (Crucitti & Vignoli, 2002: 439), Egypt (Fet & Lowe, 2000: 72), Iraq (Kennedy, 1937: 745), Israel (Simon, 1872: 247), Jordan (Amr & El-Oran, 1994: 187), Kuwait (Kettel, 1982: 6), Lebanon (El-Hennawy, 1992: 100), Oman ( Birula, 1917: 229; Hendrixson, 2006: 39), Qatar (El-Hennawy, 1992: 100), Saudi Arabia (Pocock, 1895: 292; Hendrixson, 2006: 39), Syria ( Birula, 1900b: 9), Tunis (Kraepelin, 1901: 266), Turkey (Pocock, 1902: 373), United Arab Emirates ( Hendrixson, 2006: 40), Yemen ( Birula, 1937: 101).

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BIRULA, A. A. 1900 b. Scorpiones mediterranei Musei Zoologici mosquensis. Izvestiya Imperatorskogo Obshchestva Lyubitelei Prirody, Istorii, Antropologii i Etnografii, 98, 3 (1): 8 - 20 (in Russian).

BIRULA, A. A. 1903. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Scorpionenfauna Persiens (Zweiter Beitrag). Bulletin de l´Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. - Petersbourg, 19: 67 - 80.

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Figure 4: Map of Chahar Mahal & Bakhtiyari Province showing distribution of Androctonus crassicauda and Compsobuthus matthiesseni collected in this study.

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Figures 2–3: Iran, Chahar Mahal & Bakhtiyari Province. 2. Lordegan, Shahidane Baraftab Village, 30°56'05"N 51°21'32"E (Locality No. SH-2). Recorded occurrence of Hottentotta zagrosensis Kovařík, 1997, Orthochirus zagrosensis Kovařík, 2004, and Razianus zarudnyi (Birula, 1903). 3. Lordegan, Aloni Village, 31°32'18"N 51°04'03"E, 1883 m a.s.l. (Locality No. SH-3). Recorded occurrence of Androctonus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807), Orthochirus zagrosensis Kovařík, 2004, and Hemiscorpius lepturus Peters, 1861.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Scorpiones

Family

Buthidae

Genus

Androctonus

Specimens