Isometrus (Isometrus) thwaitesi Pocock, 1897

Kovařík, František, 2003, A review of the genus Isometrus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) with descriptions of four new species from Asia and Australia, Euscorpius 10 (10), pp. 1-19 : 4-5

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scientific name	Isometrus (Isometrus) thwaitesi Pocock, 1897
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Isometrus (Isometrus) thwaitesi Pocock, 1897 View in CoL

Isometrus thwaitesi Pocock, 1897b: 114 View in CoL ; Kraepelin, 1899: 67; Pocock, 1900: 48; Lampe, 1918: 196; Takashima, 1945: 86.

Isometrus twaitesi: Vachon, 1972: 177 ; Vachon, 1976: 39.

Isometrus (Isometrus) thwaitesi: Vachon, 1982: 88 View in CoL ; Kovařík, 1994: 202; Kovařík, 1997a: 8; Kovařík, 1998b: 111; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 150.

Isometrus (Isometrus) thwaitesi pallidus Lourenço & Huber, 2002: 266 .

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Ceylon, now Sri Lanka ; BMNH.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Sri Lanka, Ratnapura dist. , 2 km S Hayes, 30.XI.1995, 1♀, leg. S. Bečvář & Košťál ,

FKCP.

DISTRIBUTION. Sri Lanka ( Pocock, 1897b: 114).

Subgenus Reddyanus Vachon, 1972 (Figs. 1–8, Table 1)

Isometrus (Reddyanus) Vachon, 1972: 177 ; Vachon, 1976: 38; Vachon, 1982: 90; Francke, 1985: 9; Kovařík, 1994: 202; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 150.

Isometrus (Raddyanus) : Tikader & Bastawade, 1983: 255 (in part).

TYPE SPECIES: Isometrus acanthurus Pocock, 1899 (see Fet & Lowe, 2000: 150)

DIAGNOSIS: Trichobothrium db on chela of pedipalp situated between trichobothria et and est.

Males of most species have longer segments of metasoma and often also wider manus than females; segments of pedipals are of equal length in both sexes.