Compsobuthus garyi Lourenço et Vachon, 2001

Navidpour, Shahrokh, Kovařík, František, Soleglad, Michael E. & Fet, Victor, 2008, Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Part I. Khoozestan Province, Euscorpius 65 (69), pp. 1-41 : 8-9

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Compsobuthus garyi Lourenço et Vachon, 2001 View in CoL

Compsobuthus garyi Lourenço & Vachon, 2001: 180 View in CoL ; Kovařík, 2003: 106; Vignoli, 2005: 85; Kovařík & Ahmed, 2007: 5.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Iran, Khoozestan Province , 45 km NW of Masdjed-e- Soleyman ; MNHN.

DISTRIBUTION: Iran, Khoozestan Province (Lourenço & Vachon, 2001: 180).

COMMENTS: The collecting team led by the first author searched some parts of Masdjedsoleyman, especially 45 km NW of the city of Lali, and could not find Compsobuthus garyi , the only species found were C.

jakesi and C. matthiesseni . C. garyi is characterized by the absence of both internal and external granules in the rows of granules on the movable finger (see fig. 2 in Lourenço & Vachon, 2001: 181). Whereas the absence of external granules is frequent in Compsobuthus and signals the acutecarinatus group, the absence of internal granules would be unique and has never been seen by any of us. Surprisingly, Lourenço (in Lourenço & Vachon, 2001: 180) did not mention this character in the text and instead distinguished C. garyi and C. Matthiesseni on other characters of doubtful taxonomic value, which invites the possibility that fig. 2 of Lourenço & Vachon (2001: 181) is not accurate. A similar situation arose in the description of Buthacus mahraouii Lourenço, 2004 , when Lourenço subsequently (2006: 63) admitted that this species has very small external granules which had been left out from his original figure (see fig. 3 in Lourenço, 2004: 227 versus fig. 14 in Lourenço, 2006: 63). If this happened in the description of C. garyi as well, it would explain the absence of this species at its type locality. Since MNHN does not lend type specimens, it is not clear at this moment whether C. garyi really lacks internal granules in rows of granules on the movable finger or in fact has them, in which case it would be a synonym of C. matthiesseni that we found at the site.