Compsobuthus matthiesseni (Birula, 1905)

Navidpour, Shahrokh, Nayebzadeh ², Hassan H., Soleglad, Michael E., Fet, Victor, Kovařík, František & Kayedi, Mohammad Hassan, 2010, Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Part VI. Lorestan Province, Euscorpius 99 (99), pp. 1-23 : 3-7

Compsobuthus matthiesseni (Birula, 1905)

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Buthus acutecarinatus matthiesseni Birula, 1905a: 142 ; Birula, 1937: 107.

Buthus (Buthus) acutecarinatus matthiesseni : Birula, 1917: 229, 240; Birula, 1918: 25.

Buthus (Hottentotta) acutecarinatus matthiesseni : Vachon, 1940b: 173.

Compsobuthus matthiesseni : Pringle, 1960: 77, fig. 3; Habibi, 1971: 43; Levy et al., 1973: 114; Levy &

Amitai, 1980: 60; Farzanpay, 1987: 149; Farzanpay, 1988: 37; Kovařík, 1992: 183; Kovařík, 1996: 53; Kovařík, 1997a: 40, 49; Kovařík, 1997b: 179; Kovařík, 1998: 109; Sissom & Fet, 1998: 1, figs. 1– 12; Crucitti, 1999: 84; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 127; Lourenço & Vachon, 2001: 180; Kovařík, 2002: 7; Crucitti & Vignoli, 2002: 441, figs. 6–7; Kovařík, 2003: 97; Vignoli et al., 2003: 2; Vignoli, 2005: 85; Akbari, 2007: 76, fig. p. 64; Kovařík & Ahmed, 2007: 6; Navidpour et al., 2008a: 9, figs. 3–4, 17, 60–63; Navidpour et al., 2008b: 9, figs. 19, 45–48; Navidpour et al., 2008c: 8, figs. 2, 4–6, 33-36; Navidpour et al., 2008d: 3, figs. 3, 4, 7, 9, 31–34; Lowe, 2009: 11; Pirali-Kheirabadi et al., 2009: 3, figs. 4, 6, 28–31.

Compsobuthus acutecarinatus matthiesseni : Vachon & Kinzelbach, 1987: 101; El-Hennawy, 1992: 123.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Iran, “ Kum, Province Irak-Adschemi “ now Qum (Qom); ZISP .

LORESTAN PROVINCE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Iran, Lorestan Province , 10 km SE Bavineh, 33°36'08"N 47° 11'59"E, 1100 m a.s.l, 16–17 October 1998, 1 ♂, 6 ♀ ,

leg. P. Kabátek & M. Kaftan ( FKCP); Dorud , Gahar, 33°19'16"N 49°17'17"E, 2325 m a.s.l. (Locality No. LO-1350), October 2009, 3 ♀ ( RRLS) , leg. H. H. Nayebzadeh & M. Tavakoli; Koramabad , Roodkhoshke Village, 33°43'50"N 48°29'53"E, 1717 m a.s.l. (Locality No. LO-1351), October 2009, 1 ♂ ( RRLS) , leg. A. Pahlavani, A. Bahreei & M. Bahreei; Koramabad , Nojhiyan, 33°16'14"N 48°31'38"E, 1953 m a.s.l. (Locality No. LO-1355), October 2009, 3 ♂ ( RRLS) , leg. M. H. Kayedi, H. Nayebzadeh & D. Bahreei; Koramabad , 33°29'36"N 48°20'45"E, 1266 m a.s.l. (Locality No. LO-1357), October 2009, 2 ♀, 1 imm. ( RRLS) , leg. M. H. Kayedi, H. Nayebzadeh & D. Bahreei; Koohdasht , Darbe Gonbad Village, 33°41'45"N 47°09'11"E, 1310 m a.s.l. (Locality No. LO-1361), October 2009, 3 ♂, 1 ♀ ( RRLS) , leg. A. Pahlavani, A. Bahreei & M. Bahreei; Koohdasht , Nal Eshgeneh Village, 33°30'45"N 47°31'40"E, 1327 m.a.s.l. (Locality No. LO-1389), October 2009, 1 ♂ ( RRLS) , leg. A. Pahlavani; Aleshtar , Shineh Village, 33°47'37"N 47°55'47"E, 1355 m a.s.l. (Locality No. LO-1367), October 2009, 1 ♂, 2 ♀ ( RRLS) , leg. A. Bahreei, M. Bahreei & R. Amraee; Azna , Charkheshan Village, 33°40'21"N 48°23'30"E, 2220 m a.s.l. (Locality No. LO-1369), October 2009, 1 ♂ ( FKCP) , leg. A. Bahreei, A. Pahlavani & R. Amraee; Azna , 33°29'13"N 49°28'10"E, 1932 m a.s.l. (Locality No. LO-1386), October 2009, 1 ♀ ( FKCP) , leg. A. Pahlavani, A. Bahreei & M. Bahreei; Poldokhtar , Maemulan, 33°23'50"N 48°58'17"E, 1193 m a.s.l. (Locality No. LO-1387), October 2009, 2 ♂ ( RRLS) , 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( FKCP) , leg. Bahreei & A. Pahlavani; Koramabad , Sarabe Doreh, 33°34'17"N 48°01'00"E, 1333 m a.s.l. (Locality No. LO-1392), October 2009, 3 ♂, 2 ♀ ( RRLS) , leg. M. H. Kayedi, H. Nayebzadeh, D. Bahreei & R. Amraee; Koramabad , Papi khaldare sofla Village, 33°32'24"N 48°19'11"E, 1292 m a.s.l. (Locality No. LO-1400), October 2009, 4 ♂, 2 ♀ ( RRLS) , leg. R. Amraee, A. Bahreei & M. Bahreei; Koramabad , Kamalvand Village, 33°29'13"N 48°25'22"E, 1460 m a.s.l. (Locality No. LO-1401), October 2009, 4 ♂, 3 ♀ ( RRLS) , leg. H. Nayebzadeh, A. Bahreei & M. Bahreei.

DISTRIBUTION: Iran, known from provinces Kermanshah (formerly Bahtaran), Bushehr, Fars, Hamadan, Ilam, Khoozestan, Kerman, Kordestan, Lorestan, Markazi, Qom (Sissom & Fet, 1998; Kovařík, 2003: 100; Akbari, 2007: 76), Kohgilouyeh & Boyer Ahmad ( Navidpour et al., 2008d: 3), and Chahar Machal & Bakhtiyari Province (Pirali-Kheirabadi et al., 2009: 5); Iraq (Birula, 1917: 240; Pringle, 1960: 77), Syria (Kovařík, 2002: 7), Turkey (Kovařík, 1996: 53).

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Figure 4: Map of Lorestan Province showing distribution of Androctonus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807) and Compsobuthus matthiesseni (Birula, 1905) collected in this study.