Hemiscorpius lepturus Peters, 1861

Navidpour, Shahrokh, Fet, Victor, Kovařík, František & Soleglad, Michael E., 2012, Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Part VIII. Fars Province, Euscorpius 139, pp. 1-29 : 20

Hemiscorpius lepturus Peters, 1861

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Hemiscorpius lepturus Peters, 1861a: 426 , 8 figs.; Karsch, 1879: 15, 21; Birula, 1905a: 146; Birula, 1917: 215; Birula, 1918: 42, fig. 7; Weidner, 1959: 100; Pringle, 1960: 84, fig. 9; Khalaf, 1962: 2; Khalaf, 1963: 68; Vachon, 1966: 214; Habibi, 1971: 44; Farzanpay & Pretzmann, 1974: 217; Pérez Minocci, 1974: 36; Vachon, 1977: 213; Vachon, 1979: 59; Farzanpay, 1987: 141, 168; Farzanpay, 1988: 42; Simard & Watt, 1990: 441; Sissom, 1990: 75; El-Hennawy, 1992: 135; Kovařík, 1997a: 48; Kovařík, 1998: 136; Fet, 2000: 429; Prendini, 2000: 44; Capes & Fet, 2001: 303; Monod & Lourenço, 2005: 902, figs. 1a–b, 16– 21, 27e –f, 36; Akbari, 2007: 76, fig. p. 68; Navidpour et al., 2008a, figs. 20–21, 43, 107–110: 26; Navidpour et al., 2008b: 20, figs. 2, 5, 7, 24, 78–81; Navidpour et al., 2008c: 15, figs. 4, 12, 67-70; Navidpour et al., 2008d: 14, figs. 3, 6–7, 9, 14, 56–59; Pirali-Kheirabadi et al., 2009: 12, figs. 3, 11, 49–52; Navidpour et al., 2010: 17; Navidpour et al., 2011: 19, figs. 7, 16, 65–68; Karataş et al., 2012: 118.

Hemiscorpion lepturus: Peters, 1861b: 511 ; Ausserer, 1880: 466; Kraepelin, 1899: 142; Werner, 1934: 276; Moritz & Fischer, 1980: 317; Kovařík, 2002: 14.

Hemiscorpio lepturus: Simon, 1880b: 29 .

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Iraq, “Mendeli bei Baghdad ” ( Mendeli near Baghdad); ZMHB .

TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Iraq, Mendeli bei Baghdad, 2♂ 2♀ (syntypes) ( ZMHB 43 a–d), leg. Petermann.

FARS PROVINCE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Iran, Fars Province , 10 km E of Sivand, 30º05'N 52º55'E, ca 1700 m a.s.l., 29.- 30.IV.1996, 1♀ ( FKCP), leg. M. Kaftan , 2♀ 2juvs. ( FKCP), leg. J. Pitulová ; Zagros Mts. , Abshar env., 30º23'N 51º30'E, ca 1000 m a.s.l., 2.-3.V.1996, 2♀ 1juv. ( FKCP), leg. M. Kaftan and D. Král ; Marvdasht ,

29°58'20"N 52°55'50"E, 1467 m a.s.l. (Locality No. Fa- 860), IX.2008, 2♂ 2♀ ( RRLS), leg. Hayader, Bahrani, Masihipour & Habibzadeh ; Marvdasht-Shiraz road , 29°57'59"N 51°55'41"E, 1632 m a.s.l. (Locality. No. Fa- 861), IX.2008, 1♀ ( RRLS), leg. Masihipour, Bahrani & Habibzadeh ; Lar , 27°34'N 54°10'E (altered), 674 m a.s.l. (Locality No. Fa-881), X.2008, 1♂, ( FKCP), leg. Bahrani, Habibzadeh, Masihipour & Hayader.

DISTRIBUTION: Iran, Ardabil ( Karataş et al., 2012: 118), Fars, Hormozgan, Kohgilouyeh & Boyer Ahmad, Lorestan ( Kovařík, 1997a: 48), Bushehr, Ilam, Khoozestan ( Farzanpay, 1987: 141; Monod & Lourenço, 2005: 902; Akbari, 2007: 76), Chahar Machal & Bakhtiyari (Pirali-Kheirabadi et al., 2009: 12), and Kerman (Navidpour et al., 2011: 19) Provinces; Iraq (Peters, 1861a: 426).