Pandinoides militaris Pocock, 1900

Prendini, Lorenzo, 2016, Redefinition And Systematic Revision Of The East African Scorpion Genus Pandinoides (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae) With Critique Of The Taxonomy Of Pandinus, Sensu Lato, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2016 (407), pp. 1-66 : 34

Pandinoides militaris Pocock, 1900 , stat. rev.

Figures 1D , 2 , 17–23; tables 4, 5

? Scorpio bellicosus (nec L. Koch, 1875): Pocock, 1898: 498.

Scorpio bellicosus (nec L. Koch, 1875): Pocock, 1897b: 397, 398.

Pandinus militaris Pocock, 1900b: 61 , 62; Birula, 1915b: 29, 30; Birula, 1927: 88; Moriggi, 1941: 96; Roewer, 1943: 229; Kovařík, 1998: 140.

Pandinus cavimanus: Pocock, 1896: 431 , 432; Birula, 1915b: 26, 27 (part); Borelli, 1925a: 16; Borelli, 1925b: 324; Moriggi, 1941: 94 (part); Probst, 1973: 327 (part); Kovařík, 1998: 140 (part).

Pandinus (Pandinoides) militaris: Vachon, 1974: 953 ; Lamoral and Reynders, 1975: 564; El- Hennawy, 1992: 100, 136 (part).

Pandinus (Pandinoides) cavimanus: Lamoral and

Figures

FIGURE 1. Pandinoides Fet, 1997, habitus in life. A, B. Pandinoides cavimanus (Pocock, 1888) adults seized from shipment for exotic pet trade by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (A); ♀ (AMNH), imported to the United States from Tanzania (B). C. Pandinoides duffmackayi, sp. nov., paratype ♂ (AMNH), imported to U.S. from Tanzania. D. Pandinoides militaris (Pocock, 1900), ♂, Tsavo, Kenya. Photos courtesy Randy Mercurio (B, C) and Corwin Trent (D).

FIGURE 2. Map plotting known distributions of Pandinoides cavimanus (Pocock, 1888) (circles), Pandinoides duffmackayi, sp. nov. (triangles), and Pandinoides militaris (Pocock, 1900) (squares) based on data from the literature and the present contribution. White symbols denote type localities. Question marks denote unconfirmed, dubious records.