A review of the subgenus Pandinus Thorell, 1876 with descriptions of two new species from Uganda and Ethiopia (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae)
Author
Kovařík, František
text
Euscorpius
2011
2011-12-31
129
129
1
18
https://mds.marshall.edu/euscorpius/vol2011/iss129/1/
journal article
10.18590/euscorpius.2011.vol2011.iss129.1
1536-9307
12782418
41616D18-D960-44D2-AADB-9CD8DF12FC44
Pandinus
(
Pandinus
)
smithi
(
Pocock, 1897
)
(
Figs. 20–22
,
41
,
42
)
Scorpio smithii
Pocock, 1897: 398
.
Pandinus
(
Pandinus
)
smithi
:
Vachon, 1974: 953
;
Kovařík, 1998: 141
;
Fet, 2000: 468
;
Kovařík, 2003: 152
;
Kovařík, 2009: 58
, 126, figs. 389-391.
TYPE
LOCALITY
AND
TYPE
REPOSITORY
.
Hargesa
(Hargeysa),
Somaliland
; the
Natural History Museum
,
London
,
United Kingdom
(
BMNH
).
DIAGNOSIS
. Total length
100–110 mm
. Color of adults uniformly reddish brown, legs yellow to yellowish, always lighter-colored than body. Pectinal teeth number 18–21. Granules on manus of pedipalp conical and pointed. Male has more pronounced tooth on movable finger of pedipalp and larger telson than female. Chela very densely hirsute, with 13–15 ventral trichobothria. Spiniform formula of tarsomere II = 7/4: 7-8/4: 8/5-6: 8- 9/5. Tarsomere II with 3 spines on inclined anteroventral surface (
Fig. 41
).