Sassanidotus zarudnyi (Birula, 1900)

Kovařík, František & Fet, Victor, 2006, Taxonomic position of the genus Sassanidotus Farzanpay, 1987 (Scorpiones: Buthidae), Euscorpius 39 (38), pp. 1-9 : 4

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https://doi.org/ 10.18590/euscorpius.2006.vol2006.iss38.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5507192

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Sassanidotus zarudnyi (Birula, 1900)
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Sassanidotus zarudnyi (Birula, 1900) View in CoL

( Figs. 1 View Figures 1–2 , 3–5 View Figure 3 View Figure 4 View Figure 5 , Table 1 View Table 1 )

Buthus (Buthus) zarudnyi Birula, 1900a: 11 ; Birula, 1917: 214.

Buthus zarudnyi: Birula, 1903: 70 .

Buthus (Buthus) zarudnyi zarudnyi: Birula, 1917: 240 .

Mesobuthus zarudnyi: Vachon, 1950: 153 (1952: 325) View in CoL ; Vachon, 1958: 141; Habibi, 1971: 44; Pérez, 1974: 25; Fet, 1980: 168; Farzanpay, 1988: 39; Kovařík, 1998: 115.

Mesobuthus zarudnyi zarudnyi: Vachon, 1966: 213 View in CoL ; Kovařík, 1997: 49.

Sassanidothus zarudnyi: Farzanpay, 1987: 161 ; Farzanpay, 1988: 41; Kovařík, 1993: 203; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 222.

Sassanidothus zarudnyi zarudnyi: Fet & Lowe, 2000: 223 .

Type locality and type repository. Neizar , Seistan, Iran, ZISP .

Holotype. Iran, Teheran, Persia , 1♂ (holotype), coll. N. A. Zarudny, lost (see below).

Material examined. ( Figs. 3–5 View Figure 3 View Figure 4 View Figure 5 ). Iran, 1 ♂, 21– 24.V.1898, Seistan, Neizar, coll. N. A. Zarudny, ZISP No. 599, deignated here as neotype (see below) .

Diagnosis: Total length of the examined male 34.4 mm. Fingers of pedipalps flexed proximally. Movable finger of pedipalp bears 11 rows of granules, all without external and with internal granules. Trichobothria db and est situated next to each other, approximately equidistant from esb and eb ( Fig. 1 View Figures 1–2 ). Intermediate carinae of metasomal segment II may reach three-quarters of segment length; metasomal segment III bears in place of intermediate carinae only about 10 posteriorly situated irregular granules; metasomal segment IV with lateral surface sparsely covered by granules that do not form rows or carinae. Tarsomere I of legs I to III with bristlecombs. Pectinal teeth number 22. Telson bulbous.

Distribution. Iran (Birula, 1900a: 11).

Comments: The holotype from Teheran, published by Birula (1900a), is absent from the collection of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University (K. M. Mikhailov, pers. comm., April 2006), and therefore we consider it to be lost. The record and brief description of the male specimen from Seistan, which we examined, was published by the same author later (Birula, 1903: 70). Birula (1903) noted that there were no diagnostic differences (even at the level of subspecies) between the Teheran and Seistan males. Following Article 75 of the Code (ICZN, 1999), we designate here the Seistan male (ZISP 599) as a neotype. At the same time, Birula described Buthus zarudnyi gracilis (Birula, 1900) and B. z. sarghadensis Birula, 1903 as two separate subspecies.

ZISP

Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Scorpiones

Family

Buthidae

Genus

Sassanidotus

Loc

Sassanidotus zarudnyi (Birula, 1900)

Kovařík, František & Fet, Victor 2006
2006
Loc

Sassanidothus zarudnyi zarudnyi:

Fet & Lowe 2000: 223
2000
Loc

Sassanidothus zarudnyi

: Farzanpay 1987: 161
1987
Loc

Mesobuthus zarudnyi zarudnyi:

Vachon 1966: 213
1966
Loc

Mesobuthus zarudnyi

: Vachon 1950: 153
1950
Loc

Buthus (Buthus) zarudnyi zarudnyi:

Birula 1917: 240
1917
Loc

Buthus zarudnyi:

Birula 1903: 70
1903
Loc

Buthus (Buthus) zarudnyi

Birula 1900: 11
1900
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