Androctonus crassicauda ( Olivier, 1807 )

Navidpour, Shahrokh, Nayebzadeh ², Hassan H., Soleglad, Michael E., Fet, Victor, Kovařík, František & Kayedi, Mohammad Hassan, 2010, Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Part VI. Lorestan Province, Euscorpius 99 (99), pp. 1-23 : 3

Androctonus crassicauda ( Olivier, 1807)

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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 : 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; Fet & Kovařík, 2003: 180; Kovařík & Whitman, 2005: 105; Lourenco, 2005: 149; Hendrixson, 2006: 38, figs. 1a–f, Pl. 1; Akbari, 2007: 76, fig. p. 62; Navidpour et al., 2008a: 5 , figs. 5, 12, 44–45; Navidpour et al., 2008b: 3 , figs. 4, 20, 25–28; Navidpour et al., 2008c: 3 , figs. 2, 3, 8, 13–16; Navidpour et al., 2008d: 3 , figs. 4, 9, 15–18; Pirali-Kheirabadi et al., 2009: 3, figs. 3–4, 12–15.

Prionurus crassicauda : Pocock, 1895: 292; Tullgren, 1909: 2; Birula, 1904: 29; Birula, 1905a: 120; Masi, 1912: 91; Penther, 1912: 110.

Androctonus crassicauda crassicauda : 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 : Birula, 1917: 93, 240.

Buthus crassicauda orientalis : Kraepelin, 1913: 124.

Androctonus crassicauda orientalis : Vachon, 1959: 124; Vachon, 1966: 210; Habibi, 1971: 42; Pérez Minocci, 1974: 18.

Androctonus amoreuxi baluchicus : Kovařík, 1997a: 39 (see Vignoli et al., 2003: 4).

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Kashan , Persia, now Iran, Esfahan Province; MNHN .

LORESTAN PROVINCE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Iran, Lorestan Province , Koohdasht, Darbe Gonbad Village, 33°41'45"N 47°09'11"E, 1310 m a.s.l. (Locality No. LO-1361), October 2009, 1 ♂ ( RRLS) , 1 ♂ ( FKCP), leg. A. Pahlavani, A. Bahreei & Bahreei M; Dorud , Daryab Village, 33°32'51"N 48°59'27"E, 1620 m a.s.l. (Locality No. LO-1380), October 2009, 2 ♂ ( RRLS), leg. A. Bahreei, M. Bahreei & R. Amraee.

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).

Figures

Figure 4: Map of Lorestan Province showing distribution of Androctonus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807) and Compsobuthus matthiesseni (Birula, 1905) collected in this study.