Redescription of Heterometrus latimanus and confirmation of the genus Heterometrus (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae) in Pakistan
Author
Tahir, H. Muhammad
Author
Prendini, Lorenzo
text
American Museum Novitates
2014
2014-06-24
2014
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/3805.1
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Heterometrus latimanus
(Pocock, 1894)
Figures 1
–8; tables 1, 2
Scorpio latimanus
Pocock, 1894: 74
, 75.
Heterometrus latimanus
:
Kraepelin, 1899: 113
; Takashima, 1945: 92; Pérez Minnoci, 1974: 38;
Kovařík,
2004: 21, 51, table 2 (misidentification); 2009: 39, 73, figs. 3, 4 (misidentification).
Palamnaeus latimanus
: Pocock, 1900: 90
, fig. 27.
Heterometrus
(
Srilankametrus
)
indus
(DeGeer, 1778)
:
Couzijn, 1981: 121
(misidentification, part).
Heterometrus
(
Srilankametrus
)
latimanus
: Tikader and Bastawade, 1983: 545–550
, fig. 1458–1468;
Fet,
2000: 448.
Heterometrus wroughtoni
(Pocock, 1899)
:
Khatoon, 1999: 223
, 224, fig. 12 (misidentification);
Kovařík,
2004: 49, 51, table 2 (misidentification, part); 2009: 35, table 1 (misidentification, part).
TYPE MATERIAL
:
Holotype
♀
(
BMNH
1879.7.3.1), “
India
” [examined].
NEW
RECORDS
:
PAKISTAN
:
Azad Kashmir
:
15.vii.1994
,
1 juv. ♂
(
PMNH 52
)
.
Khyber Pakhtoon Khawa
:
Boner District
:
Daggar Tehsil
:
Daggar
,
34°31′N
72°28′E
,
x.2012
,
M. Azhar
, rocky area with stones, collected by turning stones
,
2 ♂
,
3 ♀
,
1 subad. ♂
(
AMNH
)
,
1 ♀
,
3 subad. ♂
,
2 subad. ♀
(
AMNH
)
,
1 subad. ♀
(
AMCC
[
LP 11601
])
,
27.ix.2012
, M. Shahid, M. Ahsan, and A. Khan, rocky area with stones,
1 ♀
(
AMNH
)
,
1 subad. ♂
(
AMCC
[
LP 11569
])
;