Compsobuthus matthiesseni (Birula, 1905)

Navidpour, Shahrokh, Fet, Victor, Kovařík, František & Soleglad, Michael E., 2012, Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Part VIII. Fars Province, Euscorpius 139, pp. 1-29 : 7

Compsobuthus matthiesseni (Birula, 1905)

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Buthus acutecarinatus matthiesseni Birula, 1905a: 142 ; Birula, 1937: 107.

Buthus (Buthus) acutecarinatus matthiesseni: Birula, 1917: 229 , 240; Birula, 1918: 25.

Buthus (Hottentotta) acutecarinatus matthiesseni: Vachon, 1940a: 173 .

Compsobuthus matthiesseni: Pringle, 1960: 77 , fig. 3;

Habibi, 1971: 43; Levy et al., 1973: 114; Levy &

Amitai, 1980: 60; Farzanpay, 1987: 149; Farzanpay,

1988: 37; Kovařík, 1992: 183; Kovařík, 1996: 53;

Kovařík, 1997a: 40, 49; Kovařík, 1997b: 179; Kovařík, 1998: 109; Sissom & Fet, 1998: 1, figs. 1–12; Crucitti, 1999: 84; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 127; Lourenço & Vachon, 2001: 180; Crucitti & Vignoli, 2002: 441, figs. 6–7; Kovařík, 2002: 7; Kovařík, 2003: 97; Vignoli et al., 2003: 2; Vignoli, 2005: 85; Akbari, 2007: 76, fig. p. 64; Kovařík & Ahmed, 2007: 6; Navidpour et al., 2008a: 9, figs. 3–4, 17, 60–63; Navidpour et al., 2008b: 9, figs. 19, 45–48; Navidpour et al., 2008c: 8, figs. 2, 4–6, 33-36; Navidpour et al., 2008d: 3, figs. 3, 4, 7, 9, 31–34; Pirali- Kheirabadi et al., 2009: 3, figs. 4, 6, 28–31; Navidpour et al., 2010: 3, fig. 4; Navidpour et al., 2011: 9, figs. 11, 29–32; Karataş et al., 2012: 112.

Compsobuthus acutecarinatus matthiesseni: Vachon & Kinzelbach, 1987: 101 ; El-Hennawy, 1992: 123.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Iran, “ Kum, Province Irak-Adschemi “ now Qum (Qom); ZISP .

FARS PROVINCE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Iran, Fars Province , 10 km E of Sivand, 30°05'N 52°55'E, ca 1700 m a.s.l., 29.- 30.IV.1996, 5♀ ( FKCP), leg. M. Kaftan, D. Král, and J. Pitulová ; Zagros Mts. , Abshar env., 30°23'N 51°30'E, ca 1000 m a.s.l., 2.-3.V.1996, 1♀ ( FKCP), leg. M. Kaftan ; 5 km SE of Posht Chenár , 29°12'N 53°20'E, 1692 m a.s.l., 19.-20.IV.2000, 2♀ 1juv. ( FKCP), leg. J. Šobotník ; 2 km W of Khollar , 29°59'N 52°12'E, 2130 m a.s.l., 22.-23.IV.2000, 1♀ ( FKCP), leg. J. Šobotník ; 10 km S of Firuz Abad , 28°55'N 52°31'E, 1412 m a.s.l., 20.-21.IV.2000, 1♀ 1juv. ( FKCP), leg. J. Šobotník ; Firoozabad – Gheer road, 29°40'39"N 52°44'34"E, 1207 m a.s.l. (Locality No. Fa-850), IX.2008, 2♂ ( RRLS), leg. Masihipour & Habibzadeh ; Kazeroon-Borazjan road, 29°33'36"N 51°23'58"E, 724 m a.s.l. (Locality. No. Fa-841), IX.2008, 1♂ 1♀ ( RRLS), leg. Masihipour, Bahrani & Habibzadeh.

DISTRIBUTION: Iran, known from provinces Kermanshah (formerly Bahtaran), Bushehr, Fars, Hamadan, Ilam, Khoozestan, Kerman, Kordestan, Lorestan, Markazi, Qom (Sissom & Fet, 1998; Kovařík, 2003: 100; Akbari, 2007: 76), Kohgilouyeh & Boyer Ahmad (Navidpour et al., 2008d: 3), and Chahar Machal & Bakhtiyari (Pirali- Kheirabadi et al., 2009: 5); Iraq ( Birula, 1917: 240; Pringle, 1960: 77), Syria ( Kovařík, 2002: 7), Turkey ( Kovařík, 1996: 53).