Mesobuthus phillipsii (Pocock, 1889)

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 : 119

Mesobuthus phillipsii (Pocock, 1889) , s. str.

( Figures 802–842 , 1155, 1157, Table 10) http: //zoobank. org/urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: 4A525552-

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Buthus phillipsii Pocock, 1889a: 341–343 , pl. XV, fig. 6.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Iran, Bushehr

Figures

Figures 802–805: Mesobuthus phillipsii, topotypes. Figures 802–803. Male, dorsal (802) and ventral (803) views. Figures 804–805. Female, dorsal (804) and ventral (805) views. Scale bar: 10 mm.

Figures 806–813: Mesobuthus phillipsii, topotypes. Figures 806, 808–810. Male, telson lateral (806), metasoma and telson, lateral (808), dorsal (809), and ventral (810) views. Figures 807, 811–813. Female, telson lateral (807), metasoma and telson, lateral (811), dorsal (812), and ventral (813) views. Scale bar: 10 mm (808–813).

Figures 814–835: Mesobuthus phillipsii, topotypes, pedipalp. Figures 814–824. Male, chela, dorsal (814), external (815), and ventral (816) views. Patella, dorsal (817), external (818) and ventral (819) views. Femur and trochanter, internal (820), dorsal (821), and ventral (822) views. Movable (823) and fixed (824) fingers. Figures 825–835. Female, chela, dorsal (825), external (826), and ventral (827) views. Patella, dorsal (828), external (829) and ventral (830) views. Femur and trochanter, internal (831), dorsal (832), and ventral (833) views. Movable (834) and fixed (835) fingers. The trichobothrial pattern is indicated in Figures 814–818, 820–821.

Figures836–842:Mesobuthus phillipsii, topotypes.Figures 836,838, 840–842.Male,chelicerae,carapaceandtergites I–V (836),sternopectinal region and sternites (838), and left legs II–IV, retrolateral aspect (840–842). Figures 837, 839. Female, chelicerae, carapace and tergites I–IV (837), sternopectinal region and sternites (839).