Title : ( Review of Androctonus baluchicus (Pocock, 1900) with description of new species from Iran (Scorpiones: Buthidae) )
Authors: Hossein Barahoei , Omid Mirshamsi , Nasser Sanchouli , Mostafa Ghafouri Moghaddam , Christina Lehmann-Graber , Lionel Monod ,
Full TextAbstract
The genus Androctonus Hemprich et Ehrenberg, 1828 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) is composed of 33 species and distributed in the Middle East and North Africa. Among these taxa, only Androctonus baluchicus (Pocock, 1900) and A. crassicauda (Olivier, 1807) are reported from Iran. Specimens collected from north of Sistan & Baluchistan Province (southern Iran) from 2016 to 2021 allow to re-assess the taxonomic status of Iranian species. Androctonus baluchicus is redescribed and A. sistanus Barahoei et Mirshamsi, sp.n. described from southeast Iran. A. baluchicus is distributed in the Baluchistan region (including northwest Pakistan, southwest Afghanistan), whereas A. sistanus Barahoei et Mirshamsi, sp.n. is only known in the type locality.
Keywords
, Fat-tail scorpion, Androctonus sistanus, new species, morphology, Sistan & Baluchistan, Iran
@article{paperid:1091907,
author = {Hossein Barahoei and Mirshamsi, Omid and Nasser Sanchouli and Mostafa Ghafouri Moghaddam and Christina Lehmann-Graber and Lionel Monod},
title = {Review of Androctonus baluchicus (Pocock, 1900) with description of new species from Iran (Scorpiones: Buthidae)},
journal = {Arthropoda Selecta},
year = {2022},
volume = {31},
number = {2},
month = {June},
issn = {0136-006X},
pages = {197--212},
numpages = {15},
keywords = {Fat-tail scorpion; Androctonus sistanus; new species; morphology; Sistan & Baluchistan; Iran},
}
%0 Journal Article
%T Review of Androctonus baluchicus (Pocock, 1900) with description of new species from Iran (Scorpiones: Buthidae)
%A Hossein Barahoei
%A Mirshamsi, Omid
%A Nasser Sanchouli
%A Mostafa Ghafouri Moghaddam
%A Christina Lehmann-Graber
%A Lionel Monod
%J Arthropoda Selecta
%@ 0136-006X
%D 2022
