Heterometrus kanaraensis ( Pocock, 1900 )

Kovařík, František, 2004, A review of the genus Heterometrus Ehrenberg, 1828, with descriptions of seven new species (Scorpiones, Scorpionidae), Euscorpius 15 (15), pp. 1-60 : 20

Heterometrus kanaraensis ( Pocock, 1900)

Palamnaeus scaber kanarensis Pocock, 1900: 93 .

Heterometrus (Chersonesometrus) phipsoni kanaraensis Couzijn, 1981:151 ; Kovařík, 1998: 136.

Heterometrus (Chersonesometrus) kanaraensis : Tikader & Bastawade, 1983: 636; Fet, 2000: 441; Bastawade, 2002: 296.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. India, Kanara ; BMNH.

TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. India, Kanara , Bombay, 1♂ 1♀ (lectotype and paralectotype), leg. T. R. D. Bell, BMNH No. 1897.11.5.29-30 .

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED. India, 1♀ without locality, CASC ; Goa, Portuguese India, 18.X.1943, 1im., leg. J. L. Gressitt, CASC ; Maharashtra, Karwa, North Kanara , 1980, 2♀, FKCP .

DIAGNOSIS. Adults 120–150 mm long. Base color of adults uniformly reddish brown to black, only manus and telson may be lighter colored or occasionally black. Pectinal teeth number 13–14 in male and 10–13 in female. Male has as long but narrower chela of pedipalp than female. Other segments of pedipalps do not show sexual dimorphism. Chela length to width ratio 2.35 in male anda 2.1–2.25 in females. Chela lobiform and covered with dense, long setae. Dorsal surface of pedipalp manus relatively smooth, with effaced tubercles, without carinae. Patella of pedipalp without pronounced internal tubercle. Carapace usually smooth and glossy, occasionally with sparse marginal granules and anterior tubercles. Third and fourth leg spine formula 4:6. Telson densely hirsute, elongate, vesicle shorter than the aculeus.

DISTRIBUTION. India: Maharashtra ( Pocock, 1900: 93), Karnataka (Tikader & Bastawade, 1983: 641), Goa (first report) .