Hottentotta scaber (Ehrenberg, 1828)

Kovařík, František, 2007, A revision of the genus Hottentotta Birula, 1908, with descriptions of four new species (Scorpiones, Buthidae), Euscorpius 58 (58), pp. 1-107 : 66-68

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scientific name	Hottentotta scaber (Ehrenberg, 1828)
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Hottentotta scaber (Ehrenberg, 1828) View in CoL

( Figs. 100–104 View Figure 100 View Figure 101 View Figure 102 View Figure 103 View Figure 104 )

Androctonus (Prionurus) scaber Ehrenberg in Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1828: pl. 2, fig. 7; Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1829: 359; Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1831: 10; Moritz & Fischer, 1980: 323; Braunwalder & Fet, 1998: 32.

Scorpio (Androctonus) scaber : Gervais, 1844b: 46.

Buthus scaber : Karsch, 1879a: 9; Pavesi, 1885: 197; Pocock, 1891: 241; Kraepelin, 1895: 82; Kraepelin, 1899: 19; Kraepelin, 1901: 266; Pocock, 1903b: 215; Borelli, 1915: 459; Pérez Minocci, 1974: 43; Moriggi, 1941: 84; Whittick, 1971: 2.

Buthus (Hottentotta) scaber : Birula, 1914: 654; Birula, 1917: 214; Caporiacco, 1947: 230.

Buthotus scaber : Vachon, 1958: 134; Pringle, 1960: 82; Khalaf, 1963: 65; Vachon, 1966: 210; Vachon & Stockmann, 1968: 91; Probst, 1973: 329; Lamoral & Reynders, 1975: 503; Vachon, 1977: 211; El-Hennawy, 1992: 118.

Hottentotta scaber View in CoL : Sissom, 1994: 36; Kovařík, 2001a: 44; Kovařík, 2003: 140; Kovařík & Whitman, 2005: 108.

Hottentotta (Hottentotta) scaber View in CoL : Kovařík, 1998: 110; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 143.

? Buthus gibbosus (in part): Kraepelin, 1891: 193.

= Buthus dimidiatus Simon, 1882: 244 ; Simon, 1889: 122; Pocock, 1895: 293, 316; Simon, 1890: 122; Lamoral & Reynders, 1975: 505 (syn. by Pocock, 1891: 241).

Buthus scaber dimidiatus : Pocock, 1903b: 215.

Buthus (Hottentotta) scaber dimidiatus : Birula, 1910:

171; Birula, 1917: 230; Birula, 1937: 101.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Arkiko , Abyssinia ; ZMHB.

TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED.? Eritrea, Arkiko (Abyssinia), 2♀ (lectotype hereby designated and paralectotype, Fig. 104 View Figure 104 ) leg. Ehrenberg, ZMHB No. 130 .

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED. Saudi Arabia, island Seir Farasãn Kebir, spiaggia e duna zona NE della Janâba Bay, 1.IV.1984, 1♀, leg. B. Lanza, MZUF No. 1108. Yemen, XI.1999, 2♀ (ims.)2juvs., leg. K. Šťastný, FKCP ; Al Mahwit env., wadi sari, 15°25'56"N 43°28'58"E, 840 m., 18.XI.2003, 3juvs., leg. Petr Kabátek and David Král, FKCP GoogleMaps ; S Nuqbah (S Habbān ), 18°04'N 51°31'E, 970 m, 22.X.2005, 3juvs., leg. P. Kabátek, FKCP GoogleMaps ; Shabwah gov., 22.X.2005, S of An Nuqbah, Al Aram vill., 14°13'48"N 47°04'59"E, 970 m., 1juv., leg. D. Král, FKCP GoogleMaps ; Abyan gov., 22.–23.X.2005, Lawdar env., 13°52'36"N 45°48'01"E, 1151 m., 1♂ 1♀ ( Figs. 100–103 View Figure 100 View Figure 101 View Figure 102 View Figure 103 ), leg. D. Král, FKCP GoogleMaps ; Al Mahwit gov., Al Mahwit SW env., by road, 15°25'49"N 43°28'59"E, 841 m., 1.–2.XI.2005, 1♀, leg. D. Král, FKCP GoogleMaps .

DIAGNOSIS. Total length 60–85 mm. For habitus see Figs. 100–104 View Figure 100 View Figure 101 View Figure 102 View Figure 103 View Figure 104 . Trichobothrium db on the fixed finger of pedipalp situated between trichobothria et and est ( Fig. 1 View Figures 1–4 ). Chelicerae yellow to black, reticulate. Male with slightly longer and narrower metasomal segments, width of pedipalp chela same in both sexes. Pectinal teeth number 34–37 in males, 28–33 in females. Pedipalps and legs densely hirsute, metasoma sparsely hirsute, fifth metasomal segment more hirsute than first. The hairs on patella of pedipalps are long. Carapace, mesosoma except seventh tergite (or its posterior part), fifth metasomal segment and telson black. First three metasomal segments, legs and pedipalps including fingers uniformly pale yellow. Ventral carinae on metasomal segments also black. Femur of pedipalp with 5 carinae, patella with 8 carinae, chela lacks carinae. Movable fingers of pedipalps with 14–15 rows of granules and 5 terminal granules. Seventh metasomal segment with 4 well marked ventral carinae. First and second metasomal segments with 10 carinae; third and fourth segments with 8 carinae; fifth segment with 5 carinae, 3 ventral (1 median, 2 lateral) and 2 dorsal. All metasomal carinae granulated. Dorsal carinae of metasomal segments bear larger terminal granules. Dorsal surface smooth, fifth metasomal segment bears 2 short, inconspicuous carinae. First and second metasomal segments of both sexes wider than long. Second through fourth metasomal segment width ratio in both sexes = 1.26–1.30.

COMMENTS. The lectotype is being designated in order to stabilize the nomenclature. Both type females are immatures and therefore have metasomal segments narrower than examined adults from Yemen .

H. scaber has three characters unusual for the genus. It differs from all other species in coloration, with the carapace, mesosoma, the fifth metasomal segment and telson black and all other parts pale yellow ( Figs. 100–103 View Figure 100 View Figure 101 View Figure 102 View Figure 103 ). Exceptional is also the combination of densely hirsute pedipalps and sparsely hirsute metasoma, which indicates closeness to H. jayakari and H. salei inhabiting the same areas. Most unusual are the very broad first and second metasomal segments in relation to the fourth metasomal segment, namely in females ( Figs. 100–103 View Figure 100 View Figure 101 View Figure 102 View Figure 103 ). This unusual feature is otherwise present only in H. jalalabadensis sp. n. ( Figs. 56–59 View Figures 56–59 ), which is easily distinguished by other noted characters (pubescence and color).

DISTRIBUTION: Eritrea, Ethiopia (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1829: 359; Birula, 1917: 214), Saudi Arabia (Birula, 1914: 654), and Yemen (Simon, 1890: 122). Records from Egypt (Vachon & Stockmann 1968) and Iraq ( Khalaf, 1963: 65) must be considered dubious.