Heterometrus swammerdami Simon 1872
Creators: name: Kovařík, František
name: Lowe, Graeme
name: Ranawana, Kithsiri B.
name: Hoferek, David
name: Š, V. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Scorpiones
Scorpionidae
Heterometrus
Heterometrus swammerdami

description: Heterometrus swammerdami Simon, 1872
(Figs. 15, 535–546)
Heterometrus swammerdami Simon, 1872: 56–59; Fet, 2000: 443–444 (complete reference list until 1998); Kovařík, 200 4: 42–44, fig. 28 (complete reference list until 2004); Kovařík, 2009: 44, 93, 113, figs. 139–145, 275–283; Veronika & al., 2013: 72–73, figs. 1, 3–8, tab. 1.
Heterometrus (Gigantometrus) swammerdami: Tikader & Bastawade, 1983: 562–567, figs. 1497–1510;
= Heterometrus (Gigantometrus) swammerdami titanicus Couzijn, 1981: 165–167, figs. 4f, 55, 56 (syn. by Kovařík, 2004: 42).
TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. East Indies; MNHN.
SRI LANKAN MATERIAL EXAMINED. Sri Lanka, North Western Province, Puttalam, IV.1994, 1♂ 1♀ 1juv., FKCP, leg. P. Senft; Central Province, Kandy District, Hantana (Peradeniya), University land, 07°14'54.7"N 080°36'54"E, 760 m a.s.l. (Locality 15CA, Fig. 575), 19. –21. IV.2015, 1♀, UPSL, leg. Kovařík et al.; Central Province, Matale District, Maragamuwa / Kumaragala, 0 7°41'58.5"N 080°42'26.7"E, 662 m a.s.l. (Locality 15CB, Fig. 576), 21. IV.2015, 1♀ (Figs. 535–543), FKCP, leg. Kovařík et al.; North Central Province, Polonnaruwa District, Giritale, 08°01'26.0"N 080°54' 37.2"E, 233 m a.s.l. (Locality 15CE, Figs. 579–580), 22. –23. IV.2015, 1juv. (Fig. 545), FKCP, 3juvs., UPSL, leg. Kovařík et al.; Northern Province, Jaffna District, 09°42'51.6"N 080°04'44.8"E, 19 m a.s.l. (Locality 15CJ, Fig. 587), 26. –27. IV.2015, 1♀, FKCP, leg. Kovařík et al.; North Central Province, Anuradhapura District, Mihintale, 08°20'51.8"N 080°30'27.7"E, 156 m a.s.l. (Locality 15CL, Fig. 589), 27. –28. IV.2015, photos only, leg. Kovařík et al.; North Central Province, Puttalam District, Eluwankulam, 08° 1 2'35.1"N 079°51'32"E, 52 m a.s.l. (Locality 15CN, Fig. 591), 28. IV.2 015, photos only, leg. Kovařík et al.; North Central Province, Puttalam District, Eluwankulam, 08°17'15"N 079°50' 38.7"E, 38 m a.s.l. (Locality 15CO, Fig. 592), 28. IV.2 015, 1juv., UPSL, leg. Kovařík et al.
DIAGNOSIS. Total length 1 28–176 mm long. Base color uniformly reddish brown to reddish black. Juveniles may be red with yellow telson. Pectinal teeth number 16–20. Sexual dimorphism in proportions of pedipalps not noticeable. Chela strongly lobiform, length/ width ratio 1.6–1.8 in both sexes. Entire manus covered by large, rounded granulae that do not form true carinae. Pedipalp patella without pronounced internal tubercle. Carapace with disc smooth, margins and posterior portion granulate, anterior portion granulate and tuberculate; occasionally entire surface sparsely granulate. Fifth segment of metasoma longer than pedipalp femur, fourth segment of metasoma approximately as long as pedipalp femur. Telson bulbous, vesicle as long as or longer than aculeus.
NOTE. For photos of the male see figs. 139–142 and 275 in Kovařík, 2009: 93 and 113.
DISTRIBUTION. India and Sri Lanka.
description: Published as part of Kovařík, František, Lowe, Graeme, Ranawana, Kithsiri B., Hoferek, David & Š, V. A., 2016, Scorpions of Sri Lanka (Scorpiones Buthidae, Chaerilidae, Scorpionidae) with description of four new species of the genera Charmus Karsch, 1879 and Reddyanus Vachon, 1972, stat n, pp. 1-133 in Euscorpius 220 on pages 111-113, DOI: 10.18590/euscorpius.2016.vol2016.iss220.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7124466