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Scorpio maurus townsendi (Pocock, 1900)

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 : 26

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scientific name

 Scorpio maurus townsendi (Pocock, 1900)
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Scorpio maurus townsendi (Pocock, 1900)

Figures 2, 43, 103–106

Heterometrus townsendi Pocock, 1900: 364 .

? Scorpio townsendi : Birula, 1905a: 147 ( Birula, 1910: 184).

Scorpio maurus townsendi : Birula, 1910: 184; Birula, 1917: 231; Vachon, 1950: 164 (1952: 336); Vachon, 1966: 215; Habibi, 197 1: 44; Pérez Minocci, 1974: 40; Kovařík, 1997a: 50; Kovařík, 1998: 141; Fet, 2000: 479; Akbari, 2007: 76.

Scorpio maurus View in CoL : Farzanpay, 1987: 165; Farzanpay, 1988: 42.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Iran, Bushehr Province, Fort Reshire near Bushire, Persian Gulf , Iran ; BMNH.

KHOOZESTAN PROVINCE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Iran, Khoozestan Province , Ahvaz – Ramhormoz road, 31°11'54"N 49°11'41"E, 44 m a.s.l. (Locality No. 016- 1), VIII.2007, 10♀ 1im. RRLS GoogleMaps , 1♂ 1im. FKCP, leg. Navidpour & Masihipour ; Ahvaz– Ramhormoz road, 3 1°11'54"N 49°11'41"E, 44 m a.s.l. (Locality No. A-Ra 807), VIII.2007, 4♀ RRLS GoogleMaps , 1♂ 1♀ FKCP, leg. Masihipour & Hayader ; Shushtar–Gotvand road (Locality No. 016-2), VII.2007, 12♂ 32♀ 3ims. RRLS, leg. Masihipour, Hayader & Bahrani ; Dezful district , Shahyoon village, 32°36'41"N 48°33'36"E, 527 m a.s.l. (Locality No. D-SH), VI.2007, 2♂ 12♀ 1im. RRLS, leg. Navidpour & Masihipour GoogleMaps ; 45 km NW of Masdjedsoleyman, Lali , 31°18'33"N 49°03'39"E, 329 m a.s.l. (Locality No. La-815-4), X.2007, 8♀ 1im. 1juv. RRLS, leg. Masihipour & Hayader GoogleMaps ; Shush (Apadana Palace), 32°10'55"N 48°15'39"E, 75 m a.s.l., X.2007, 3♂ 2♀ 6 juvs. RRLS, leg. Masihipour, Habibzadeh & Hayader GoogleMaps ; Sardasht (Dezful), 2006, 2♀ 3juvs. RRLS, leg. Navidpour.

DISTRIBUTION: Iran, Bushehr Province (Pocock, 1900: 364), Khoozestan Province (first report).

Family Hemiscorpiidae Pocock, 1893

AKBARI, A. 2007 (1836). [Study of scorpion fauna of Iran]. Project report publication of Razi Vaccine & Serum Research Institute, 2007, 96 (in Farsi).

BIRULA, A. A. 1905 a. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Scorpionenfauna Persiens (Dritter Beitrage). Bulletin de l´Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. - Petersbourg, 23: 119 - 148.

BIRULA, A. A. 1910. Ueber Scorpio maurus Linne und seine Unterarten. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, 39: 115 - 192.

(BIRULA, A. A.) BYALYNITSKII-BIRULYA, A. A. 1917. Arachnoidea Arthrogastra Caucasica. Pars I. Scorpiones. Zapiski Kavkazskogo Muzeya (Memoires du Musee du Caucase), Tiflis: Imprimerie de la Chancellerie du Comite pour la Transcaucasie, A (5), 253 pp. (in Russian; published August 1917). English translation: Byalynitskii-Birulya, A. A. 1964. Arthrogastric Arachnids of Caucasia. 1. Scorpions. Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 170 pp. (in Russian).

FARZANPAY, R. 1987 (1366). [Knowing Scorpions]. Teheran: Central University Publications, No. 312, Biology 4, 231 pp. (in Farsi, with Latin index).

FARZANPAY, R. 1988. A catalogue of the scorpions occuring in Iran, up to january 1986. Revue Arachnologique, 8 (2): 33 - 44.

KOVARIK, F. 1997 a. Results of the Czech Biological Expedition to Iran. Part 2. Arachnida: Scorpiones with descriptions of Iranobuthus krali gen. n. et sp. n. and Hottentotta zagrosensis sp. n. (Buthidae). Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae, 61: 39 - 52.

KOVARIK, F. 1998. Stiri [Scorpiones]. Jihlava (Czech Republic): Publishing House Madagaskar , 176 pp (in Czech).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Scorpiones

Family

Scorpionidae

Genus

Scorpio

Specimens