Scorpions of the Horn of Africa (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Part VIII. Pandinops Birula, 1913 (Scorpionidae) with description of two new species
Author
Kovařík, František
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Pandinops hawkeri
(Pocock, 1900)
(
Figs. 65
,
69
)
Pandinus hawkeri
Pocock, 1900b: 60–61
.
Pandinus
(
Pandinops
)
hawkeri
: Birula, 1913: 422
;
Vachon, 1974: 921
, 953, figs. 116–118; Fet, 2000: 469 (complete reference list until 2000); Kovařík, 2003: 150 (? in part); Kovařík, 2009: 53, 117, figs. 298, 317–320.
=
Pandinus pugilator
Pocock, 1900a: 52–53
, figs.1–1a, plate IV.
Syn. n.
Pandinus
(
Pandinops
)
pugilator
:
Vachon, 1974: 953
; Fet, 2000: 469.
Pandinus
(
Pandinops
)
bellicosus
: Kovařík, 2000: 4–6
(in part); Kovařík, 2009: 51 (in part).
TYPE
LOCALITY AND
TYPE
REPOSITORY
.
Somaliland
,
Jifa Uri
, inland from
Zeyla
(now
Zeila
, in
Somali
Saylac
,
11°21'N
43°28'E
)
,
BMNH
.
TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED
.
Somaliland
,
Jifa Uri
, inland from
Zeyla
(now
Zeila
, in
Somali
Saylac
,
11°21'N
43° 28'E
), leg
.
R
.
M. Hawker
,
1♀
(
holotype
of
Pandinus hawkeri
,
Fig. 69
and figs.
317–320 in
Kovařík
, 2009: 53, 117)
,
BMNH
No.
1898.4.25.4–6;
Berbera
,
16. April 1895
or
Hargaisa
, 25.–28.
April.
1895, leg. C
.
V
. A.
Peel
,
1 specimen
(
holotype
of
Pandinus pugilator
,
Fig. 65
)
,
BMNH
No.
1900.0.3.15.1
.
DIAGNOSIS. Total length
80–95 mm
. Color uniformly reddish black, legs and telson yellow (only old specimens preserved for more than 100 years in alcohol were studied). Carapace smooth in the middle, several granules sparsely along margins. Internal trichobothria on chela number 6–8, ventral trichobothria on chela number 11–12. Pedipalp chela hirsute rather densely. Pedipalp chela dorsally smooth, without granules. Chela internal smooth with two longitudinal carinae rather smooth. Chela length/ width ratio is 1.76–1.82. Pectinal teeth number
12–13 in
female, male unknown. Metasomal segments I–II ventrally smooth, III–V granulate, mainly on segment IV; metasomal segments I–IV with ventral carinae absent or indicated only. Spiniform formula of tarsomere II = 3/4: 3/4: 3/4-5: 3/4-5. Tarsomere II with 2 spines on inclined anteroventral surface.
COMMENTS.
Pandinus pugilator
was based by Pocock on a very damaged specimen (originally stuffed and kept dry, but currently is in alcohol), whose pectens are whol- ly lacking. Due to damage, sex cannot be ascertained. Kovařík (2000: 4) synonymized
Pandinus pugilator
with
Pandinops bellicosus
, but the current more detail study shows that
Pandinus pugilator
is a synonym with
P. hawkeri
.