Androctonus crassicauda ( Olivier, 1807 )

Navidpour, Shahrokh, Ezatkhah, Majeed, Kovařík, František, Soleglad, Michael E. & Fet, Victor, 2011, Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Part VII. Kerman Province, Euscorpius 131 (131), pp. 1-32 : 3-6

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Androctonus crassicauda ( Olivier, 1807) View in CoL

( Figs. 4 View Figure 4–5 , 10 View Figure 10 , 17–20 View Figures 17–24 )

Scorpio crassicauda Olivier, 1807: 97 , pl. XLII, fig. 2.

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, fig. 40; Vachon, 1979: 31, figs. 1, 2, 4; 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, fig. 3; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 72; Stathi & Mylonas, 2001: 288; Kovařík, 2002: 5; Crucitti & Vignoli, 2002: 439; Vignoli et al., 2003: 2 View Cited Treatment ; Fet & Kovařík, 2003: 180; Kovařík & Whitman, 2005: 105; Lourenço, 2005: 149; Hendrixson, 2006: 38, figs. 1a–f, Pl. 1; Akbari, 2007: 76, fig. p. 62; Navidpour et al., 2008a: 5 View Cited Treatment , figs. 5, 12, 44–45; Navidpour et al., 2008b: 3 View Cited Treatment , figs. 4, 20, 25–28; Navidpour et al., 2008c: 3 View Cited Treatment , figs. 2, 3, 8, 13–16; Navidpour et al., 2008d: 3 View Cited Treatment , figs. 4, 9, 15–18; Pirali-Kheirabadi et al., 2009: 3, figs. 3–4, 12–15; Navidpour et al., 2010: 3 View Cited Treatment , fig. 4.

Prionurus crassicauda : Pocock, 1895: 292; Tullgren, 1909: 2; Birula, 1904: 29; Birula, 1905: 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: 23–29, figs. 30–34; 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 .

KERMAN PROVINCE MATERIAL EXAMINED [12 localities]. Iran , Kerman Province, 5 km NW of Fahrej, 28°59'N 58°50'E (28.9833, 58.8333), 6.V1997, 1♂ ( FKCP), leg. M. Kaftan; Ghaleh Ganj, Tarik Mah ( Dark Moon ) vil., 27°38'14"N 57°56'12"E (27.6372, 57.9367), 417 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-14), V.2009, 1♀ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi GoogleMaps ; Kerman, Jupar road, 30°07'25"N 57°11'26"E (30.1236, 57.1906), 1819 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-29), V.2009, 3♀ ( RRLS) GoogleMaps , 1♀ im. ( FKCP), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Zarand , 30°47'42"N 56°35'19"E (30.7950, 56.5886), 1678 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-36), V.2009, 1♂ 2♀ ( RRLS) GoogleMaps , 1♂ ( FKCP), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Rafsanjan road, Sarcheshmeh ( Gode Ahmar ), 30°02'53"N 55°53'54"E (30.0481, 55.8983), 2316 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-41), V.2009, 1♀ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Rafsanjan road, Zarand, 30°32'22"N 56°04'42"E (30. 5394, 56.0783), 1547 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-46), V.2009, 1♂ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Shahre Babak, Marza, 30°01'43"N 55°05'41"E (30.0286, 55.0947), 1789 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-54), V.2009, 1♂ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Sirjan-Kerman road, 29°30'41"N 55°43'20"E (29.5114, 55.7222), 1814 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-62), V.2009, 1♂ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Jupar-Mahan road, Esmaeel Abad vil., 30°04'48"N 56°05'58"E (30.0800, 56.1156), 1835 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-107), V.2009, 1♂ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Mahan, Shahzadeh garden, 30°01'32"N 57°16'07"E (30.0256, 57.2686), 2016 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-113), V.2009, 1♂ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Mahan-Kerman road, 30°09'21"N 57°09'58"E (30.1558, 57.1661), 1801 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-114), V.2009, 1♂ 1♀ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Kerman-Bagheyn road, 30°14'04"N 56°55'18"E (30.2344, 56.9217), 1758 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-131), V.2009, 1♀ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi. GoogleMaps

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; Levy & Amitai, 1980), 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), Tunisia (Kraepelin, 1901: 266), Turkey ( Pocock, 1902: 373), United Arab Emirates (Hendrixson, 2006: 40), Yemen (Birula, 1937: 101).

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Figures

Figure 10: Map of Kerman Province showing distribution of Androctonus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807), and Kraepelinia palpator (Birula, 1903) collected in this study.

Figure 4–5: Iran, Kerman Province. 4 (top). Rafsanjan road, Zarand, 30°32'22"N 56°04'42"E, 1547 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE- 46). Recorded occurrence of Androctonus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807), Compsobuthus kaftani Kovařík, 2003, Mesobuthus macmahoni (Pocock, 1900), and Polisius persicus Fet, Capes & Sissom, 2001. 5 (bottom). Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Sirjan- Kerman road, 29°28'55"N 55°42'13"E, 1790 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-60). Recorded occurrence of Odontobuthus doriae (Thorell, 1876).

Figures 17–24: 17–18. Androctonus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807), dorsal and ventral views, ♂ (73 mm), Iran, Bushehr Province, Chahak district, 29°38'32"N 50°26'56"E, FKCP. 19–20. Androctonus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807), dorsal and ventral views, ♀ (85 mm), Egypt, FKCP. 21–22. Odontobuthus doriae (Thorell, 1876), dorsal and ventral views, ♂ (65 mm), Iran, Kerman Province, Baft-Orzouyeh road, 29°08'19"N 56°36'55"E, 2250 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-80), FKCP. 23–24. Odontobuthus doriae (Thorell, 1876), dorsal and ventral views, ♀(70 mm), Iran, Sistan & Baluchistan Province, 30 km N of Espake by road, 27°05'07"N 60°01'02"E, alt. 540 m, FKCP.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Scorpiones
Family	Buthidae
Genus	Androctonus