Mesobuthus persicus ( Pocock, 1899 )

Kovařík, František, Fet, Victor, Gantenbein, Benjamin, Graham, Matthew R., Aydin, Ersen, Yağmur, Šťáhlavský, František, Nikita, Poverennyi & Novruzov, Nizami E., 2022, A revision of the genus Mesobuthus Vachon 1950 with a description of 14 new species (Scorpiones Buthidae), Euscorpius 348, pp. 1-189 : 108

Mesobuthus persicus ( Pocock, 1899)

( Figures 731–771 , 1155–1157, Table 9) http: //zoobank. org/urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: F39A833B-

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Buthus persicus Pocock, 1899: 404–405 .

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Figures 731–734: Mesobuthus persicus. Figures 731–732. Male from Iran, West Azarbaijan Province, Rahmanlu, NMPC, dorsal (731) and ventral (732) views. Figures 733–734. Female lectotype, dorsal (733) and ventral (734) views. Scale bars: 10 mm (731–732, 733–734).

Figures 735–743: Mesobuthus persicus. Figures 735, 737–739. Male from Iran, West Azarbaijan Province, Rahmanlu, NMPC, telson lateral (735), metasoma and telson, lateral (737), dorsal (738), and ventral (739) views. Figures 736, 740–742. Female from Iran, East Azarbayejan Province, Sharqi, NMPC, telson lateral (736), metasoma and telson, lateral (740), dorsal (741), and ventral (742) views. Figure 743. Female lectotype, metasoma and telson, ventral view. Scale bars: 10 mm (737–739, 740–742).

Figures 744–763: Mesobuthus persicus, pedipalp. Figures 744–753. Male from Iran, West Azarbaijan Province, Rahmanlu, NMPC, chela, dorsal (744), external (745), and ventral (746) views. Patella, dorsal (747), external (748) and ventral (749) views. Femur and trochanter, internal (750), dorsal (751), and ventral (752) views. Movable finger (753). Figures 754–763. Female from Iran, East Azarbaijan Province, Sharqi, NMPC, chela, dorsal (754), external (755), and ventral (756) views. Patella, dorsal (757), external (758) and ventral (759) views. Femur and trochanter, internal (760), dorsal (761), and ventral (762) views. Movable finger (763). The trichobothrial pattern is indicated in Figures 744–748, 750–751.

Figures 764–771: Mesobuthus persicus. Figures 764–765, 768–771. Male from Iran,West Azarbaijan Province, Rahmanlu, NMPC, chelicerae, carapace and tergites I–IV (764), sternopectinal region and sternites (765), and left legs I–IV, retrolateral aspect (768–771). Figure 766. Female from Iran, East Azarbaijan Province, Sharqi, NMPC, chelicerae, carapace and tergites I–III. Figure 767. Female lectotype, sternopectinal region and sternites.