Further review of Orthochirus Karsch, 1892 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Asia: taxonomic position of O. melanurus, O. persa, O. scrobiculosus, and description of six new species
Author
Kovařík, FrantIšek
Author
Fet, Victor
Author
Yağmur, Ersen Aydın
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Euscorpius
2020
318
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73
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5741618
1536-9307
5741618
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Orthochirus fuscipes
(
Pocock, 1900
)
(
Figure 343
)
Butheolus melanurus fuscipes
Pocock, 1900: 29
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SYNONYMS:
=
Paraorthochirus blandini
Lourenço & Vachon, 1997: 329
(
type
locality and
type
repository:
Pakistan
, environs of Karachi); Fet & Lowe, 2000: 212.
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REFERENCES:
Orthochirus fuscipes
: Vachon, 1949: 139 (1952: 225)
; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 195 (complete reference list until 1998);
Kovařík, 2004: 11
(in part); Kovařík & Fet, 2006: 8.
Afghanorthochirus erardi
: Lourenço & Vachon, 1997: 332
(in part;
paratypes
from
Pakistan
).
TYPE
LOCALITY AND
TYPE
REPOSITORY.
Northern
Baluchistan
, now
Pakistan
;?
BMNH
(could not be found; see
Kovařík, 2004: 11
).
MATERIAL
EXAMINED
.
Pakistan
,
Balochistan Province
,
Lasbela District
,
7 mi
NW Uthal
, [
25°48'N
66°37'E
],
2 January 1960
,
1♂
5♀
, leg.
S. Minton
,
CASC
;
Lasbela District
,
7 mi
from
Diwana
, [
26°24'N
67°10'12"E
],
21 February 1960
,
1♀
A, leg.
S. Minton
,
CASC
;
Khurkhra
,
38 km
S Uthal
,
2♂
2♀
,
24 April 1993
, leg.
S. Bečvář
,
FKCP
.
Sindh Province
,
Hyderabad
, [
25°22'45"N
68°22'06"E
], 2012,
1♂
,
FKCP
;
7 mi
NW
Karachi
,
20 December 1958
,
2♂
3♀
, leg.
S. Minton
,
CASC
;
1.75 mi
NW Karachi
,
Airport
, [
24°51'36"N
67°00'12"E
],
4 January 1959
, leg.
1♂
1juv.
A, leg.
S. Minton
,
CASC
;
Karachi
environs,
January 2007
,
5♂
5♀
, leg.
Z. Ahmed
, 2008,
8♂
6♀
,
FKCP
;
Thatta District
,
1 mi
NW Kalri (Keenjhar) Lake
[
24°57'N
68°03'E
],
17 January 1959
,
3♂
3♀
1juv.
, leg.
S. Minton
,
CASC
.
DIAGNOSIS (
♂
♀
).
Total
length of adults
24–40 mm
.
Trichobothrium
d
2
on dorsal surface of pedipalp femur absent or reduced.
Pectinal
teeth number
19–22 in
males and
16–20 in
females.
Movable
finger of pedipalps with 8–9 rows of denticles, 7–9 ID and 8–9 OD.
Dorsal
carinae on pedipalp patella developed and smooth.
Metasoma I
–II with 10 carinae, metasoma
III
with 6–8 carinae, metasoma
IV
–
V
with 2 dorsolateral carinae and 2 partly incomplete ventrolateral carinae.
Metasoma
III
with laterodorsal carinae without punctae.
Ventral
carinae of metasoma I–
III
consist of large granules in one or two rows.
Metasoma
IV
–
V
ventrally and laterally smooth with fine punctation developed at least in female, spaces among punctae usually smooth; metasoma I ventrally and laterally granulated or bumpy with punctation reduced.
Metasoma
V
dorsal surface mesially usually granulated; metasoma I dorsal with 0–10 large granules in adults.
Tergites
roughly to finely granulated.
Sternite
VII granulated, with four granulated carinae present.
Pedipalp
, metasoma and telson glabrous.
Moderate
tibial spurs present on legs
III
and
IV
.
Tarsomere I
of legs I–
III
with 4–8 long setae in both sexes
.
COMMENTS. We studied specimens from
Pakistan
, environs of Karachi (locality of
holotype
of
Paraorthochirus blandini
and
paratypes
of
Afghanorthochirus erardi
) with strong intraspecific variability, which belong to
Orthochirus fuscipes
. Species
P. blandini
and
A. erardi
were described in different genera, which are now in synonymy with
Orthochirus
. In our opinion, all specimens from this area belong to
Orthochirus fuscipes
.
DISTRIBUTION.
Pakistan
(
Fig. 343
).