Androctonus kunti, Yağmur, 2023

Yağmur, Ersen Aydın, 2023, Androctonus kunti sp. n. from Iğdır Province, Turkey (Scorpiones: Buthidae), Euscorpius 371, pp. 1-23 : 1

Androctonus kunti sp. n.

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Figures

Figures 1–4: A. kunti sp. n. Figures 1–2. Male holotype in dorsal (1) and ventral (2) views. Figures 3–4. Female paratype in dorsal (3) and ventral (4) views. Scale bar: 10 mm.

Figures 5–6: A. kunti sp. n., male holotype under white light. Figure 5. Carapace and tergites in dorsal view. Figure 6. Sternites and sternopectinal area. Scale bar: 10 mm.

Figures 7–8: A. kunti sp. n., male holotype under UV light. Figure 7. Carapace and tergites in dorsal view.Figure 8. Sternites and sternopectinal area. Scale bar: 10 mm.

Figures 9–12. A. kunti sp. n., carapace with tergites I–II (9, 10) and sternopectinal area (11, 12) of male holotype under white light (9, 11) and under UV light (10, 12).

Figures 13–14: A. kunti sp. n., female paratype under white light. Figure 13. Carapace and tergites in dorsal view. Figure 14. Sternites and sternopectinal area. Scale bar: 10 mm.

Figures 15–16: A. kunti sp. n., female paratype under UV light. Figure 14. Carapace and tergites in dorsal view. Figure 16. Sternites and sternopectinal area.

Figures 17–20. A. kunti sp. n., carapace with tergites I–II (17, 18) and sternopectinal area (19, 20) of female paratype under white light (17, 19) and under UV light (18, 20). Scale bar: 10 mm.

Figures 21–28. A. kunti sp. n., male holotype, pedipalp segments. Chela ventral (21), dorsal (22), internal (23) and external (24) views. Movable (25) and fixed (26) fingers dentition. Pedipalp ventral (27), dorsal (28). Trichobothrial pattern is indicated by red circles. Scale bar: 10 mm.

Figures 29–36. A. kunti sp. n., male holotype, pedipalp segments, under UV light. Chela ventral (29), dorsal (30), internal (31) and external (32) views Movable (33) and fixed (34) fingers dentition. Pedipalp ventral (35), dorsal (36). Scale bar: 10 mm.

Figures 37–44. A. kunti sp. n., female paratype pedipalp segments. Chela ventral (37), dorsal (38), internal (39) and external (40) views Movable (41) and fixed (42) fingers dentition. Pedipalp ventral (43), dorsal (44). Trichobothrial pattern is indicated by red circles. Scale bar: 10 mm.

Figures 45–52: A. kunti sp. n., female paratype, pedipalp segments under UV light. Chela ventral (45), dorsal (46), internal (47) and external (48) views Movable (49) and fixed (50) fingers dentition. Pedipalp ventral (51), dorsal (52). Scale bar: 10 mm.

Figures 53–58: A. kunti sp. n., metasoma and telson of male holotype. Figures 53–55: Under white light, lateral (53), dorsal (54), and ventral (55) views. Figures 56–58: Under UV light, lateral (56), dorsal (57), and ventral (58) views. Scale bar: 10 mm.

Figures 59–64: A. kunti sp. n., metasoma and telson of female paratype. Figures 59–61: Under white light, lateral (59), dorsal (60), and ventral (61) views. Figures 62–64: Under UV light, lateral (62), dorsal (63), and ventral (64) views. Scale bar: 10 mm.

Figures 65–72: A. kunti sp. n., metasoma V and telson in lateral (65–68) and ventral (69–72) views under white (65–66, 69–70) and UV (67–68, 71–72) light.. Figures 65, 67, 69, 71. Male holotype. Figures 66, 68, 70, 72. Female paratype.

Figure 73. A. kunti sp. n., male holotype, tibia, basitarsus and tarsus of right legs I–IV.

Figure 74. A. kunti sp. n., female paratype, tibia, basitarsus and tarsus of right legs I–IV (Presumably the long macrosetae of bristle combs have worn or broken off in the photographed female specimen).

Figures 75–76: Alive specimens of A. kunti sp. n. in the natural habitat. Figure 75. Male. Figure 76.Female.