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<emphasis id="B97F9D567A536A7BFF575C9FFD8D4448" box="[212,621,1776,1800]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">Mesobuthus caucasicus parthorum</emphasis>
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(nec
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): Fet, 198 9: 107 (in part; Jarkurgan; Termez).
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<emphasis id="B97F9D567A536A7BFF575D41FE054405" box="[212,485,1838,1862]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="13">Mesobuthus caucasicus</emphasis>
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(nec Nordmann, 18 40):
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(in part; Jarkurgan). ETYMOLOGY. The species is named in honor of Elena Kreuzberg-Mukhina (Ottawa,
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), a prominent ornithologist and conservationist whose decades of field work were devoted to the
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deserts and mountains.
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<emphasis id="B97F9D567A526A7AFF435C9DFE89444A" bold="true" box="[192,361,1778,1802]" pageId="15" pageNumber="14">Figures 4452:</emphasis>
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, holotype female, left legs IIV, retrolateral aspect (4447), chelicerae, carapace and tergites IIII (48), sternopectinal region and sternites IIIIV (49), metasoma and telson, lateral (50), dorsal (51) and ventral (52) views. Scale bar: 10 mm (5052).
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<emphasis id="B97F9D567A4D6A65FF435CC2FDE84584" bold="true" box="[192,520,1709,1733]" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">Figures 5372: Figures 5362</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B97F9D567A4D6A65FF435C96FEB8444E" bold="true" box="[192,344,1785,1807]" pageId="16" pageNumber="15">Figures 6372:</emphasis>
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. Paratype female from Repetek, Turkmenistan. Pedipalp chela, dorsal (63), and external (64) views.
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. Holotype male. Pedipalp chela, dorsal (65), external (66), and ventral (67) views. Pedipalp patella, dorsal (68), external (69) and ventral (70) views. Pedipalp femur and trochanter, internal (71) and dorsal (72) views. The trichobothrial pattern is indicated in Figures 6569, 7172.
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DIAGNOSIS. Total length of adult females 7480, adult male unknown. Trichobothrium
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, near to
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. Female with fingers proximally little twisted. Pedipalp chela length/ width ratio
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females. Pectinal teeth number
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males,
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females. Chelicerae yellow, without reticulation. Pedipalps and metasoma very sparsely hirsute. Color uniformly white to yellowish brown, black pigmented mainly dorsolateral carinae on pedipalp femur and patella. Femur of pedipalp with 45 granulate carinae. Patella with 8 granulate or smooth carinae. Chela with smooth carinae indicated. Movable fingers of pedipalps with 12 cutting rows of denticles and 5 terminal denticles. Seventh sternite bears 4 well marked granulate carinae. First metasomal segment with 10 carinae; second to fourth with 8 carinae, other two carinae on metasomal segment II could be indicated by several denticles posteriorly; fifth with 5 carinae. Dorsal carinae on metasomal segments IIV composed of consistent small blunt denticles. Length to width ratio of fourth metasomal segment
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females. Telotarsus III ventral setation in two rows, each containing more than 16 long setae. Pedal spur of legs densely hirsute.
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DESCRIPTION. The total length of adult females 7480, adult male unknown. Trichobothrium
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, near to
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. Female has the fingers proximally a little twisted. Chelicerae yellow, without reticulation, the tips of teeth on cheliceral fingers are black. For the position and distribution of trichobothria see
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. For measurements see
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and
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COLORATION (
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). The color uniformly white to yellowish brown, black pigmented mainly dorsolateral carinae on pedipalp femur and patella. The black pigment indicated also in ventral surface of metasoma and femur of legs.
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MESOSOMA AND CARAPACE (
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). The carapace is carinate and unevenly covered by granules of varying size; much of the granulation is fine, but some granules are larger and distinctly rounded. Tergites IVI bear three carinae and are granulated, with some intercarinal granules small and others larger and rounded. Tergite VII is pentacarinate. The pectinal tooth count is
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females. The pectinal marginal tips extend to about half of the fourth sternite in females. The pectines have three marginal lamellae and six to eight middle lamellae. The lamellae bear numerous long setae, each fulcrum with three to five setae. All sternites are smooth and sparsely hirsute. The seventh sternite bears four well marked granulate carinae. The other sternites bear two furrows.
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PEDIPALPS (
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). The pedipalps are sparsely hirsute and smooth. The femur bears four to five granulated carinae, the middle carina on internal surface could be incomplete indicated by several strong denticles. The patella bears eight carinae from which internal and dorsal are granulated in females. The chela is smooth but carinae are indicated. The movable fingers of pedipalps bear 12 cutting rows of denticles, every with external and internal denticles present, and five terminal denticles.
</paragraph>
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LEGS (
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). The tarsomeres bear two rows of long setae on the ventral surface and numerous macrosetae on the other surfaces. Ventral setation of tarsomere II (telotarsus) in two rows which every contains more than 16 long setae. Pedal spur of legs densely hirsute. Femur bears only several macrosetae. Femur and patella with carinae well developed. Tibial spurs present and moderate on third and fourth legs and absent in the other legs.
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METASOMA AND TELSON (
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). All metasomal segments are only very sparsely hirsute. The metasomal segment I with 10 carinae, II with 8 carinae but other two lateromedian carinae are indicated by incomplete row of denticles, IIIIV with 8 carinae, and V with 5 carinae. All carinae granulated, dorsal carinae on metasomal segments IIV composed from consistent small blunt denticles. The dorsal surface of all segments is smooth in the middle and bumpy on margins. Other surfaces are bumpy with several solitary granules. Ventrolateral carinae of metasomal segment V posteriorly with several large denticles. The telson is only sparsely hirsute, rather elongate, bumpy and smooth.
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