Odontobuthus doriae ( Thorell, 1876 )

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 : 13-15

Odontobuthus doriae ( Thorell, 1876)

( Figs. 5 , 8 , 13 , 21–24 )

Buthus doriae Thorell, 1876: 107 ; Kraepelin, 1891: 57– 58, pl. I, fig. 6, 10; Kraepelin, 1899: 27.

Odontobuthus doriae : Pringle, 1960: 83; Khalaf, 1963: 66; Vachon, 1966: 213; Habibi, 1971: 44; Pérez Minocci, 1974: 28; Farzanpay, 1988: 39; Kovařík, 1997a: 47; Kovařík, 1998: 115; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 187; Kovařík, 2002: 9; Lourenço & Pézier, 2002: 116; Vignoli et al., 2003: 4; Pirali-Kheirabadi et al., 2009: 9, figs. 10, 24–27.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Iran, Teheran; MCSN .

KERMAN PROVINCE MATERIAL EXAMINED [18 localities]. Iran, Kerman Province , 2 km NW of Anár, 30°53’N 55°15’E (30.8833, 55.2500), 05.V.1997, 1440 m a.s.l. , 1♀ ( FKCP), leg. M. Kaftan; Jiroft, Khadang vil., 28° 31'01"N 57°47'49"E (28.5169, 57.7969), 590 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-10), IV.2009 , 1♂ im. 1♀ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Jupar-Kerman road, 30°07'25"N 57°11'26"E (30.1236, 57.1906), 1819 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-29 and KE-132), V.2009 , 2♂ 1♂ im. 2♀ and VI.2009, 1♂ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Zarand, 30°47'42"N 56° 35'19"E (30.7950, 56.5886), 1678 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-36), V.2009 , 1♀ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Rafsanjan road, Zarand, 30°31'14"N 56°13'02"E (30.5206, 56.2172), 1534 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-47), V.2009 , 5♂ 5♀ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Shahre Babak, Marza, 30°01'43"N 55°05'41"E (30.0286, 55.0947), 1789 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-54), V.2009 , 4♂ 3♀ ( RRLS) , 1♂ ( FKCP), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Shahre Babak, Estabragh, 30°28'12"N 55° 05'36"E (30.4633, 55.0933), 1768 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-56), V.2009 , 4♂ 4♀ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Sirjan-Kerman road, 29°28'55"N 55°42'13"E (29.4819, 55.7036), 1790 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-60), V.2009 , 2♂ 2♀ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Sirjan-Kerman road, 29°29'43"N 55°43'20"E (29.4953, 55.7222), 1813 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-61), V.2009 , 2 ♂ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Sirjan - Bandar Abbas road, 29°18'13"N 55°42'15"E (29.3036, 55.7042), 1748 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-70), V.2009 , 2♂ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Sirjan-Bandar Abbas road, 29°16'56"N 55°42'22"E (29. 2822, 55.7061), 1714 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-71), V.2009 , 2♂ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Sirjan-Baft road, 29°23'50"N 55°42'45"E (29.3972, 55.7125), 1847 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-72), V.2009 , 2♂ 1♀ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Sirjan-Baft road, 29°24'01"N 55°58'42"E (29. 4003, 55.9783), 1905m. (Locality No. KE-73), V.2009 , 2 ♂ 7♀ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Baft-Orzouyeh road, 29°08'19"N 56°36'55"E (29.1386, 56.6153), 2250 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-80), V.2009 , 1♂ 2♀ ( RRLS) , 2♂ im. ( FKCP), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Bardsir-Sirjan road, 29° 56'48"N 56°33'10"E (29.9467, 56.5528), 2036 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-104), V.2009 , 2♂ 4♀ ( RRLS) , 1juv. ( FKCP), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Jupar-Mahan road, 30°04'32"N 56°06'46"E (30.0756, 56.1128), 1837 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-108), VI.2009 , 9♂ 5♀ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Jupar-Mahan road, 30°04'06"N 57°08'35"E (30.0683, 57.1431), 1849 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-111), VI.2009 , 1♂ 1♀ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Jupar-Mahan road, 30°04'04"N 57°12'28"E (30.0678, 57.2078), 1885 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-112), VI.2009 , 6♂ 2♀ ( RRLS), leg. Koohpaye, Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi.

DISTRIBUTION: Iran, Esfahan, Fars, Hamadan, Kerman, Kermanshah, Mazandaran, Markazi, Teheran, West Azarbaijan, Yazd Provinces (Kovařík, 1997a: 47, Lourenço & Pézier, 2002: 116, 117, 124), Chahar Machal & Bakhtiyari Province (Pirali-Kheirabadi et al., 2009: 10), and Sistan & Baluchistan Province (Pirali-Kheirabadi et al., 2009: 14) .

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Figure 13: Map of Kerman Province showing distribution of Odontobuthus doriae (Thorell, 1876) and Polisius persicus Fet, Capes et Sissom, 2001 collected in this study.

Figure 4–5: Iran, Kerman Province. 4 (top). Rafsanjan road, Zarand, 30°32'22"N 56°04'42"E, 1547 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE- 46). Recorded occurrence of Androctonus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807), Compsobuthus kaftani Kovařík, 2003, Mesobuthus macmahoni (Pocock, 1900), and Polisius persicus Fet, Capes & Sissom, 2001. 5 (bottom). Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Sirjan- Kerman road, 29°28'55"N 55°42'13"E, 1790 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-60). Recorded occurrence of Odontobuthus doriae (Thorell, 1876).

Figures 8–9: Iran, Kerman Province. 8 (top). Jamalizadeh and Ebrahimi; Jupar-Mahan road, 30°04'04"N 57°12'28"E, 1885 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-112). Recorded occurrence of Odontobuthus doriae (Thorell, 1876) and Sassanidotus gracilis (Birula, 1900). 9 (bottom). Jupar-Kerman road, 30°07'25"N 57°11'26"E, 1819 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-134). Recorded occurrence of Kraepelinia palpator (Birula, 1903).

Figures 17–24: 17–18. Androctonus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807), dorsal and ventral views, ♂ (73 mm), Iran, Bushehr Province, Chahak district, 29°38'32"N 50°26'56"E, FKCP. 19–20. Androctonus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807), dorsal and ventral views, ♀ (85 mm), Egypt, FKCP. 21–22. Odontobuthus doriae (Thorell, 1876), dorsal and ventral views, ♂ (65 mm), Iran, Kerman Province, Baft-Orzouyeh road, 29°08'19"N 56°36'55"E, 2250 m a.s.l. (Locality No. KE-80), FKCP. 23–24. Odontobuthus doriae (Thorell, 1876), dorsal and ventral views, ♀(70 mm), Iran, Sistan & Baluchistan Province, 30 km N of Espake by road, 27°05'07"N 60°01'02"E, alt. 540 m, FKCP.