Gint calviceps (Pocock, 1900)

Kovařík, František, Lowe, Graeme, Just, Pavel, Awale, Ahmed Ibrahim & Sh, Hassan, 2018, Scorpions of the Horn of Africa (Arachnida: Scorpiones) Part XV Review of the genus Gint Kova ík et al 2013, with description of three new species from Somaliland (Scorpiones Buthidae), Euscorpius 259, pp. 1-41 : 18-21

Gint calviceps (Pocock, 1900)

( Figs. 49, 125, 132–134, 202, Table 3)

Buthus calviceps Pocock, 1900a: 54 ; Pocock, 1900b: 57; Moriggi, 1941: 84; Lamoral & Reynders, 1975: 505.

Buthus (Buthacus) calviceps: Birula, 1917: 214 , 224.

Buthacus claviceps [sic]: Probst, 1973: 329; El-Hennawy, 1992: 112.

Buthacus calviceps: Levy, Amitai & Shulov, 1973: 138 ; Levy & Amitai, 1980: 76; Kovařík, 1998: 105; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 82; Kovařík, 2003: 137; Kovařík, 2005: 10.

Gint calviceps: Kovařík et al., 2013: 14–18 , figs. 67–69 (in part); Kovařík & Mazuch, 2015: 6–10, figs. 1– 16, 55–58, 85–86, 89; Rossi, 2015: 53; Kovařík et al., 2017a: 8, figs. 24–25.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE DEPOSITORY. Somaliland, Berbera or Hargaisa (see comments in Kovařík & Mazuch, 2015: 8–10) ; BMNH.

TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Northwest Somaliland, Berbera, 16.IV.1895 or Hargaisa, 25.-28.IV.1895, leg. C . V. A. Peel, 1♀ (holotype) , BMNH.

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL EXAMINED. Somaliland, south of Qool-Cadday , between Hargeisa and Salahle, Woqooyi Galbeed, 09°11'56"N 44°09'50"E, 18.I.2015, 1♂ ( Figs. 132, 134, figs. 1–6, 8–16, 55–58, 86 in Kovařík & Mazuch, 2015: 6–10), leg. T . Mazuch , FKCP ; Toon village near Hargeisa , 09°23'30"N 44°07'10"E, 1272 m a.s.l. (figs. 24–25 in Kovařík et al., 2017: 8, Locality No. 17 SE), 8.II.2017, 1♀ ( Figs. 49, 133, No. 1396), leg. F. Kovařík, FKCP .

DIAGNOSIS. Total length 30 mm (male) to 38 mm (female); chelicerae yellow without reticulation; carapace densely granulated with only anterior median carinae developed; anterior margin of carapace straight; pectine teeth 21–23 in female and 25 in male; all sternites lacking carinae; sternite VII with four distinct carinae, intercarinal surface weakly granulated laterally; metasomal segment V length/width ratio 2.03 in male; metasomal segment I–III intercarinal surfaces granulated, mainly in males; metasomal segment IV ventrally granulated densely in both sexes; metasomal segment V of both sexes has only ventrolateral carinae, which in posterior halves bear several lobate granules; dorsal and lateral surfaces of metasoma V granulated in males; all metasomal segments sparsely setose; metasomal segment V bearing sparse, long setae in both sexes; telson rather elongate, telson length/depth ratio 3.6 in male; aculeus slightly shorter than vesicle in both sexes; legs I–III with tarsal bristle combs composed of long, thin setae; patella of legs smooth; movable finger of pedipalp with 8 rows of granules, with external and internal accessory granules and four terminal and one proximal terminal granules.