Tropiocolotes Peters, 1880

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Tropiocolotes Peters, 1880

Tropiocolotes naybandensis Krause, Ahmadzadeh, Moazeni, Wagner & Wilms, 2013

HOLOTYPE. ZFMK 92344 .

TYPE LOCALITY. Nayband, Asalouyeh, Bushehr Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 68 . Known with certainty only from Bushehr and Fars Prov.

HABITAT. The types were collected under stones in a semi desert habitat vegetated with Calotropis procera , Ficus religiosa, Lycium edgewothii, Prosopis cineraria, P. juliflor , Ziziphus spina-christi , and Zygophyllum atriplicoides . Another specimen from Fars Prov. was collected on a hillside amongst sparse xerophytic vegetation ( Gholamifard et al. 2010).

REMARKS. Tropiocolotes naybandensis is a member of the T. steudneri / nattereri species group with the centre of distribution in NW Africa ( Egypt, Sudan) and the Levant ( Krause et al. 2013).

REFERENCES. Gholamifard et al. (2010); Krause et al. (2013).

Figures

FIGURES 68–73. 68. Tropiocolotes naybandensis. 69. Tropiocolotes sp. 70. Acanthodactylus blanfordii. 71. Acanthodactylus boskianus. 72. Acanthodactylus cantoris. 73. Acanthodactylus grandis.