Compsobuthus matthiesseni (Birula, 1905)

Navidpour, Shahrokh, Ezatkhah, Majeed, Kovařík, František, Soleglad, Michael E. & Fet, Victor, 2011, Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Part VII. Kerman Province, Euscorpius 131 (131), pp. 1-32 : 9

Compsobuthus matthiesseni (Birula, 1905)

( Fig. 11 , 29–32)

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

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

Buthus (Hottentotta) acutecarinatus matthiesseni : Vachon, 1940: 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; Pirali-Kheirabadi et al., 2009: 3, figs. 4, 6, 28–31; Navidpour et al., 2010: 3, fig. 4.

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 .

KERMAN PROVINCE MATERIAL EXAMINED [2 localities]. Iran, Kerman Province , Deh Bakri, 7.IV.2000, 29° 05.370'N 57°55.539'E (29.0895, 57.9257), alt. 1957 m a.s.l., 1♀ ( FKCP), leg. M. Kaftan ; Baft , Rabar, Eshgh Abad vil., 29°21'04"N 56°49'05"E (29.3511, 56.8181), 2873 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-93), VI.2009, 2♂ 1♀ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi.

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 11: Map of Kerman Province showing distribution of Compsobuthus kaftani Kovařík, 2003 and Compsobuthus matthiesseni (Birula, 1905) collected in this study.