Androctonus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807)

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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.

BIRULA, A. A. 1904. Miscellanea scorpiologica. VII. Synopsis der russischen Skorpione. Annuaire du Musee Zoologique de l´Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. - Petersbourg, 9: 28 - 38.

BIRULA, A. A. 1905 a. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Scorpionenfauna Persiens (Dritter Beitrage). Bulletin de l´Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. - Petersbourg, 23: 119 - 148.

(BIRULA, A. A.) BYALYNITSKII-BIRULYA, A. A. 1917. Arachnoidea Arthrogastra Caucasica. Pars I. Scorpiones. Zapiski Kavkazskogo Muzeya (Memoires du Musee du Caucase), Tiflis: Imprimerie de la Chancellerie du Comite pour la Transcaucasie, A (5), 253 pp. (in Russian; published August 1917). English translation: Byalynitskii-Birulya, A. A. 1964. Arthrogastric Arachnids of Caucasia. 1. Scorpions. Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 170 pp. (in Russian).

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FARZANPAY, R. 1988. A catalogue of the scorpions occuring in Iran, up to january 1986. Revue Arachnologique, 8 (2): 33 - 44.

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KHALAF, L. 1962. A small collection of scorpions from Iraq. Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Institute, 2 (4): 1 - 3.

KHALAF, K. I. 1963. Scorpions reported from Iraq. Bulletin of Endemic Diseases (Baghdad), 5 (1 - 2): 59 - 70.

KOVARIK, F. 1997 a. Results of the Czech Biological Expedition to Iran. Part 2. Arachnida: Scorpiones with descriptions of Iranobuthus krali gen. n. et sp. n. and Hottentotta zagrosensis sp. n. (Buthidae). Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae, 61: 39 - 52.

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MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Scorpiones

Family

Buthidae

Genus

Androctonus