Euscorpius hadzii Caporiacco, 1950

Teruel, Rolando, Fet, Victor & de Armas, Luis F., 2004, A note on the scorpions from the Pirin Mountains, south- western Bulgaria (Scorpiones: Buthidae, Euscorpiidae), Euscorpius 14 (14), pp. 1-11 : 5

Euscorpius hadzii Caporiacco, 1950

Material examined. BULGARIA: Pirin Mountains , western part ( Sandanski District ), above village Ilindentsi near entrance of Sharaliiskata Peshtera cave, 1,600 m asl, 3 May 1999 (coll. B. Petrov), 1 ♂ (VF) .

Comments. For detailed description and discussion of this species see Fet & Soleglad (2002: 24–30) who elevated E. hadzii to species level, redescribed it, and designated a neotype from Albania (Prokletije Mts.). Further statistical analysis of morphology of this species in Bulgaria is provided by Fet & Soleglad (in press). The species is found in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Serbia & Montenegro, and Macedonia. In Bulgaria, E. hadzii is common in the southwest (along valleys of Struma and Mesta to the Rila Mountains), as far toward northwest as Kyustendil area (Osogovska Planina Mts.), with single records from Western Rhodopes (Fet & Soleglad, 2002; Fet & Soleglad, in press). E. hadzii evidently used the same route for dispersal into Bulgaria as mentioned above for M. gibbosus (Struma and Mesta valleys). The sole record from Pirin is undoubtedly due to poor representation of this area in collections. The high altitude at which E. hadzii is found in Pirin matches its record in Albania (Boga, Maya Tchardakut) at the 1,400 – 1,600 m (Fet, 2000, as “Group B, Subgroup B2”).