Pandinus (Pandinus) gambiensis Pocock, 1899

Kovařík, František, 2011, A review of the subgenus Pandinus Thorell, 1876 with descriptions of two new species from Uganda and Ethiopia (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae), Euscorpius 129 (129), pp. 1-18 : 1-2

Pandinus (Pandinus) gambiensis Pocock, 1899

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Pandinus imperator gambiensis Pocock, 1899: 836 .

Pandinus gambiensis : Vachon, 1967: 1534-1537, figs. 1, 3-5, 9-11; Vachon et al., 1970: 412-432, figs. 1-14; Prendini, 2004: 254.

Pandinus (Pandinus) gambiensis : Vachon, 1974: 953; Kovařík, 1998: 140; Fet, 2000: 466; Kovařík & Whitman, 2005: 114; Kovařík, 2009: 56, 126, figs. 386- 388.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Gambia; the Natural History Museum , London , United Kingdom ( BMNH) .

DIAGNOSIS. Total length 130–200 mm. Base color uniformly brown to reddish brown. Legs colored approximately as body. Pectinal teeth number 15–19. Movable fingers of pedipalp and telson without noticeable sexual dimorphism. Spiniform formula of tarsomere II = 5/4: 6/4: 6/4: 6/4. Tarsomere II with 3 spines on inclined anteroventral surface. Chela with 10 ventral trichobothria.

ger. 5. Trichobothrial pattern. For explanation of trichobothrial nomenclature see Vachon (1974) and Kovařík (2009: 28, plate J).

Figures

Figure 42: Distribution map of the subgenus Pandinus. Localities of P. imperator and P. gambiensis are after Prendini (2004: 255, fig. 13), localities of other species are new records except Hargeysa (type locality of P. smithi). Type locality of P. phillipsii corresponds with new records (Goolis Mts.). Other localities of P. phillipsii and P. smithi cited by older authors (Borelli, 1919; Pocock, 1896, 1897, and 1900) are not included in the map. Exact distributions of these species need to be further investigated.