Parabuthus eritreaensis KovařÍk, 2003

Kovařík, František, Lowe, Graeme, Elmi, Hassan Sh Abdirahman & Šťáhlavský, František, 2019, Scorpions of the Horn of Africa (Arachnida Scorpiones) Part XXI Parabuthus (Buthidae) (Part II), with description of five new species from Somaliland and Ethiopia, Euscorpius 290, pp. 1-63 : 10

Parabuthus eritreaensis KovařÍk, 2003

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Parabuthus eritreaensis KovařÍk, 2003: 142–143 , 159, figs. 10–11, table 2; KovařÍk, 2004: 18–19, fig. 6; KovařÍk & Whitman, 2005: 110; KovařÍk et al., 2016: 19–21 , figs. 40–41, 89, 174–175, 189, 198, 204.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Eritrea, Asmara env. (see comment in KovařÍk et al., 2016: 19–21) ; FKCP.

TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Eritrea, Asmara env., 1♂ (holotype) 1♀ (allotypic paratype), 1983, leg. Dorsak ; FKCP.

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL EXAMINED. Somalia, Gardo , Migiurtina, V. 1930, 1♂, leg. M. Milano & Luppi, FKCP No. 1133; Run, 16.VIII.1969, 1♂, S.B.S., MZUF No. 1127 .

DIAGNOSIS. Adults from 71.5 mm (male) to 90 mm (female) long. Base color uniformly yellow to yellowish brown, only fourth metasomal segment and telson dark. Pectine teeth number 39 in male and 35–36 in female. Stridulatory area present on dorsal surface of first to third segments, more pronounced on first and second segments. Metasoma densely hirsute. Movable finger of pedipalp more than twice as long as manus, bearing 13–15 rows of granules which include both external and internal granules. Manus of pedipalp smooth and very narrow in both sexes, pedipalp chela length/ width ratio 6.13 in male and 7.23 in female. Tarsomere I of all legs with bristle-combs.

DISTRIBUTION. Probably restricted to Somalia.