Hottentotta lorestanus Navidpour, Nayebzadeh,, 2010

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 : 7-9

Hottentotta lorestanus Navidpour, Nayebzadeh,

Soleglad, Fet, Kovařík et Kayedi, sp. n. ( Figs. 5 , 6–14 , Table 1)

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Iran, Lorestan Province, Borujerd, Wenoei Village , 33°54'21"N 48° 35'32"E, 2006 m a.s.l. ( RRLS) .

TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Iran, Lorestan Province, Borujerd, Wenoei Village , 33°54'21"N 48°35'32"E, 2006 m a.s.l. (Locality No. LO-1366), October 2009, 1 ♀ (holotype) ( RRLS), leg. M. H. Kayedi, H. Nayebzadeh & D. Bahreei.

ETYMOLOGY. Named after the type locality.

DIAGNOSIS. Total length of female holotype 112.5 mm. For habitus, see Figs. 6–9 . Trichobothrium db on fixed finger of pedipalp situated between trichobothria et and dt, close to or on level with et. Chelicerae black, reticulate. Pectinal teeth number 28 and 29. Nearly entire body hirsute, pedipalps, dorsal surface of mesosoma, legs, lateral and ventral surfaces of metasomal segments, and vesicle densely hirsute. Color greenish grey except black anterior part of carapace, telson and part of fifth metasomal segments. Pedipalps and legs are yellow. Femur of pedipalp with 3 carinae, patella with 8 carinae (some of them weakly indicated), chela lacks carinae. Movable fingers of pedipalps with 16 MD rows, and fixed fingers, with 13 MD rows. Mesosomal sternite VII smooth, with 4 smooth carinae. Metasomal segments I to III with 10 carinae; segment IV with 8 carinae and segment V with 5 carinae, 3 ventral (1 median, 2 lateral) and 2 dorsal. Dorsal carinae of metasomal segments bear terminal granules of size approximately equal to preceding granules. Dorsal surface smooth. All metasomal segments longer than wide.

DESCRIPTION: The total length of female holotype is 119.5 mm. The habitus is shown in Figs. 6–9 . Measurements of the carapace, telson, segments of the metasoma and of the pedipalps, and numbers of pectinal teeth in the holotype are given in Table 1. Trichobothrium db on fixed finger of pedipalp situated between trichobothria et and dt, close to or on level with et. ( Fig. 14 and fig. 4 in Kovařík, 2007: 3). Chelicerae black, reticulate. Pectinal teeth number 28 and 29.

COLORATION: The color greenish grey except black anterior part of carapace, telson and part of fifth metasomal segments. Pedipalps and legs are entirely yellow.

MESOSOMA: The mesosoma has three dorsal and no ventral carinae, except for the seventh segment which bears four obsolete ventral carinae. The dorsal surface is granulated, whereas the ventral surface is smooth.

PEDIPALPS: The pedipalps are smooth and hirsute. The femur of pedipalp with three distinct carinae: DI and VI carinae heavily serrated, DE mediumly serrated, VE rounded/obsolete; internal surface with irregular row of 10 large spinoid granules; external surface with irregular row of 12 serrate granules. The patella with eight carinae: DIc crenulated; DMc delicately granulated; DEc weak and rounded; VIc rounded and smooth; EMc rounded and smooth; VEc rounded and smooth; DPSc strongly serrated; VPSc irregularly crenulated. The chela lacks carinae. The movable finger of both pedipalps with 16 MD rows (including a distal row with one denticle and a basal row; each row terminates with an enlarged denticle, and is flanked by a even larger OD), 16 ID, and 16 OD; distal row with two closely spaced ID, a onedenticle MD row, and an OD ( Fig. 12 ). The fixed finger of both pedipalps with 13 MD rows, including a distal row with 5 denticles and a basal row) 15 ID (including a “doubled” basal ID), and 14 OD (with two irregularly placed basal OD). Movable finger with slight basal scalloping in the area of the basal MD row. (For carinae and finger dentition conventions, see Soleglad & Fet, 2003).

METASOMA AND TELSON: All metasomal segments are longer than wide and hirsute. Segments I to III bear 10 carinae, segment IV bears eight carinae, and segment V bears five carinae, three ventral (one median, two lateral) and two dorsal. The dorsal surface of metasoma is smooth and glossy. The ventral carinae on metasomal segments I to IV are smooth and bear obsolete granules. The lateral carinae are smooth and bear obsolete granules, whereas dorsal carinae of all segments bear granules of even size. The intervals between carinae are smooth, with only several granules, only the ventral surface of the segment V bears additional rows of granules. A subaculear tooth is absent; the telson is hirsute, elongate, essentially smooth, with only a few scattered granules.

AFFINITIES. The described features distinguish H. lorestanus sp. n. from all other species of the genus. They are recounted in the key below. Together with H. khoozestanus Navidpour et al., 2008 , H. saulcyi (Simon, 1880) , and H. schach (Birula, 1905) , the new species is among the largest in the genus. H. lorestanus sp. n. can be easily distinguished from H. khoozestanus Navidpour et al., 2008 by its nearly entire body being hirsute. H. lorestanus sp. n. can be easily distinguished from the other abovenamed three species by coloration; whereas only H. lorestanus sp. n. has pedipalps entirely yellow ( H. zagrosensis has pedipalps entirely black, and H. schach has a black chela of pedipalps) and metasomal segments I to IV are greenish gray (in H. saulcyi , these segments are yellow).

NOTE. Type locality, Wenoei, lies north of Bourojerd city, in the northern part of Lorestan Province. The surrounding area is mountainous and rocky, with altitudes from 890-4250 m a.s.l and temperature ranging from 30 °C in summer to -20 °C in winter. Two other scorpion species found in the same area are Hottentotta saulcyi and Mesobuthus eupeus .

Figures

Figure 5: Map of Lorestan Province showing distribution of Hottentotta lorestanus sp. n., Hottentotta saulcyi (Simon, 1880), and Hottentotta zagrosensis Kovařík, 1997, collected in this study.

Figure 14: Hottentotta lorestanus sp. n., female holotype. Trichobothrial pattern (notation according to Vachon, 1974).

Figures 6–13: Hottentotta lorestanus sp. n., female holotype. 6–9. Dorsal and ventral views. 10. Third leg. 11. Chela and patela. 12. Movable finger of pedipalp. 13. Metasoma ventral.