Mesobuthus zarudnyi Novruzov et al., 2022

Kovařík, František, Fet, Victor, Gantenbein, Benjamin, Graham, Matthew R., Aydin, Ersen, Yağmur, Šťáhlavský, František, Nikita, Poverennyi & Novruzov, Nizami E., 2022, A revision of the genus Mesobuthus Vachon 1950 with a description of 14 new species (Scorpiones Buthidae), Euscorpius 348, pp. 1-189 : 162-163

Mesobuthus zarudnyi Novruzov et al., 2022

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TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Azerbaijan, Absheron Peninsula, Shuvalan (40.45°N 49.71°E) ; NMPC.

REFERENCES (selected):

Mesobuthus eupeus: Birula, 1917a: 34 (in part); Yusubov, 1978: 49 (in part); Yusubov, 1985: 43 (in part); Fet, 1989: 88–89 (in part); Fet & Lowe, 2000: 170–171 (in part; complete references list until 1998); Novruzov, 2017: 67; Novruzov, 2019: 28 (in part).

Mesobuthus eupeus eupeus (in part): Fet, 1989: 88–89; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 171–172 (complete references list until 1998).

Mesobuthus zarudnyi: Novruzov et al., 2022: 1–9 , figs. 1–41, tab. 1.

TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Azerbaijan, Absheron Peninsula, Shuvalan (40.45°N 49.71°E), 18 June 2021, 1♂ (DNA No. 2060, holotype), 1♀, leg. N. Novruzov , NMPC; Qobustan Village (40.49°N 49.48°E), 23 August 2021, 2♀ (paratypes), leg. N. Novruzov , NMPC; Absheron Peninsula, Umbali Mts. , 19 April 2001, 1♀ 2juvs. (paratypes), leg. Yu. M. Marusik , NMPC; near Baku (40.39°N 49.71°E), 27 April 2013, 3♀ (paratypes), leg. D. Kasatkin , AZMM; Baku, near Qobustan Village (40.08°N 49.34°E), 3 May 2013, 1♀ 1♂ juv. (paratypes), leg. D. Kasatkin , AZMM; near Khyzy , 40°55'05"N 49°03'54"E (40.92°N 49.05°E), 614 m a. s. l., 14 June 2013, 1juv. (paratype), leg. D. Kasatkin & I. Shokhin , AZMM.

DIAGNOSIS. Total length of adults 40 mm (male) to 58 mm (female). Trichobothrium db on fixed finger of pedipalp situated between trichobothria est and esb, near to est. Male with fingers proximally more twisted than female. Pedipalp chela length/ width ratio 3.2–3.4 in male and 3.7–3.8 in female. Pectinal teeth number 25 in male, 17–22 in female. Chelicerae yellow, without or with poor reticulation. Pedipalps and metasoma sparsely hirsute. Carapace and tergites reddish brown, strongly black pigmented; metasoma, telson, pedipalps and legs yellowish to reddish brown, only part of metasomal segment V black. Femur of pedipalp with 4–5 granulated carinae. Patella with 8 usually smooth carinae. Chela lacks carinae. Movable fingers of pedipalps with 11–12 cutting rows of denticles and 5 terminal denticles. Central lateral and posterior lateral carinae of carapace not joined to form a continuous linear series of granules to posterior margin. Seventh sternite bumpy and usually finely granulated with 4 well marked rather smooth carinae. First metasomal segment with 10 carinae; second to fourth with 8 carinae, other two carinae are indicated by incomplete row of granules on metasomal segments II and III; fifth with 5 carinae. Metasoma III–IV with lateromedian carinae smooth in male but granulated in female, all other carinae usually granulated. Intercarinae surface on metasoma I laterally bumpy and smooth. Length to depth ratio of metasoma III 1.1–1.2 in both sexes; metasoma IV 1.4–1.5 in both sexes. Telotarsus III ventral setation represented by short and strong spiniform setae. Tarsi hirsute, adults with 7–9 retroinferior macrosetae on basitarsus III. Telson rather elongated. Anal lobe divided in two parts.

DISTRIBUTION. Azerbaijan (Figs. 1155–1156).