Hottentotta buchariensis ( Birula, 1897 )

Kovařík, František, Yağmur, Ersen Aydin & Fet, Victor, 2019, Review of Hottentotta described by A. A. Birula, with descriptions of two new species and comments on Birula’s collection (Scorpiones: Buthidae), Euscorpius 282, pp. 1-30 : 3-6

Hottentotta buchariensis ( Birula, 1897)

( Figs. 5–22, Table 1)

Buthus alticola buchariensis Birula, 1897: 378 ; Kraepelin, 1899: 21.

Hottentotta (Hottentotta) alticola buchariensis: Kovařík, 1998: 109 ; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 135.

Hottentotta buchariensis: Kovařík, 2007: 12 , Figs. 5, 23–25; Kovařík & Ojanguren, 2013: 161–162, Figs. 956–959, 1128–1130, 1151–1152, 1154–1155.

= Buthotus alticola kabulensis Vachon, 1959: 136–138 , figs. 10–18, 20 (syn. by Kovařík, 2007: 12).

Hottentotta (Hottentotta) alticola kabulensis: Kovařík, 1998: 109 ; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 135.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Tajikistan: Dushanbe Province, Regar (now Tursunzoda), 1♂ lectotype (designated by Kovařík, 2007: 12), 1888, coll. Lidsky, ZISP No. 210(68); Gissar, 1♂ (paralectotype, Figs. 5–22), 1888, coll. Lidsky, ZISP No. 209(67) .

TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. “Buchara”, now Tajikistan: Dushanbe Province, Gissar , 1♂ (paralectotype, Figs. 5–22), 1888, coll. Lidsky; ZISP No. 209(67) .

DIAGNOSIS. Total length 65–90 mm. Trichobothrium db on fixed finger of pedipalp situated between trichobothria et and est. Chelicerae yellow to black, reticulate. Male with slightly longer and narrower metasomal segments, width of pedipalp chela same in both sexes. Pectinal teeth number 29–33 in males, 24–27 in females. Pedipalps and metasoma very sparsely hirsute. Carapace and mesosoma black except seventh tergite that is yellow to brown. Metasoma, legs and pedipalps yellow to yellowish red. Fingers of pedipalps in adults darker than chela. Femur of pedipalp with 5 carinae, patella with 8 carinae, chela lacks carinae. Movable fingers of pedipalps with 14–16 rows of granules and 5 or 6 terminal granules. Seventh sternite with 4 granulated carinae. First metasomal segment with 10 carinae; second and third with 8 or 10 carinae; fourth with 8 carinae; fifth with 5 carinae, 3 ventral (one median, two lateral) and two dorsal. Dorsal carinae of metasomal segments bear larger terminal granules. Spaces between carinae of metasomal segments on ventral and lateral surfaces usually smooth to bumpy, without granules (except ventral surface of fifth metasomal segment). Dorsal surfaces of first through fourth metasomal segments smooth, without granules. First and second metasomal segments of both sexes longer than wide. Second to fourth metasomal segment width ratio less than 1.212.

COMMENTS. No one studied types of this taxon between 1897 and 2007 in detail. When Vachon (1959) described Buthotus alticola kabulensis , he did not compare it with the original Hottentotta buchariensis specimens. In 2007, Kovařík redescribed the male lectotype of H. buchariensis (fig. 25 in Kovařík, 2007: 14) and synonymized Buthotus alticola kabulensis with H. buchariensis . Here, we present detailed photographs ( Figs. 5–22) and measurements ( Table 1) for the male paralectotype of H. buchariensis .