Mesobuthus caucasicus subsp. przewalskii
Creators: name: Sun, Dong
name: Zhu, Mingsheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Scorpiones
Buthidae
Mesobuthus
Mesobuthus caucasicus
Mesobuthus caucasicus przewalskii (birula, 1897)

description: <i>Mesobuthus caucasicus przewalskii</i> (Birula, 1897) Figs 3, 14–16 <i>Buthus caucasicus przewalskii</i> Birula, 1897: 387–388. <i>Buthus przewalskii</i>: Kishida, 1939: 44. <i>Mesobuthus caucasicus intermedius</i>: Vachon, 1958: 150, Fig. 31. <i>Olivierus caucasicus intermedius</i>: Farzanpay, 1987: 156. <b>Material examined.</b> Type material not examined. China: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region: Tuokexun County, Xia Village, 4/VIII/2008, M. S. Zhu &amp; D. Sun leg., 9 females, 6 males and 10 juveniles (MHBU); Turpan City, near the Flaming Mountain scenic spot, 4/VIII/2008, M. S. Zhu &amp; D. Sun leg., 1 female, 1 male (MHBU); Shanshan County, Lianmuqin Town, Vineyard, 4/VIII/2008, M. S. Zhu &amp; D. Sun leg., 3 males (MHBU); Hami City, 10 km S of downtown area, Huayuan Village, 2/ VIII/2008, M. S. Zhu &amp; D. Sun leg., 6 females, 1 male (MHBU); Hami City, 5 km E of downtown area, under stover in a village, 1/VIII/2008, M. S. Zhu &amp; D. Sun leg., 1 juvenile (MHBU); Shanshan County, 18 km E of country town, 3/VIII/2008, M. S. Zhu &amp; D. Sun leg., 2 juveniles (MHBU); Shanshan County, 4 km W of county town, Vineyard, 3/VIII/2008, M. S. Zhu &amp; D. Sun leg., 2 females (MHBU); Korla City, near the downtown area, 12/IV/2008, C. L. Zhang leg., 1 female, 1 male, 1 juvenile (MHBU); Luntai County, in the <i>Populus euphratica</i> Forest Park, 12/VIII/2006, F. Zhang &amp; H. X. Ma leg., 8 females, 6 males (MHBU); Ruoqiang County, near the county town, 30/VII/2006, F. Zhang &amp; H. X. Ma leg., 5 females, 4 males, 1 juvenile (MHBU); Qiemo County, near the county town, 1/VIII/2006, F. Zhang &amp; H. X. Ma leg., 1 female, (MHBU); Turpan City, 7.5 km SW of the downtown area, Vineyard, 8/VIII/2007, D. Sun &amp; L. Zhang leg., 3 females, 22 juveniles (MHBU); Turpan City, near the Flaming Mountain scenic spot, 27/VII/2006, F. Zhang &amp; H. X. Ma leg., 1 female, 1 male (MHBU); Tuokexun County, Xia Village, 6/VIII/2007, D. Sun &amp; L. Zhang leg., 33 females, 18 males, 10 juveniles (MHBU); Kuqa County, near the county town, 11/VIII/2006, F. Zhang &amp; H. X. Ma leg., 1 female, 1 male (MHBU); Luntai County, Lunnan Town, near the Tarim River Bridge, 27/ V /2009, D. Sun &amp; Y. W. Zhao leg., 1 female, 1 male (MHBU); Kuqa County, Tarim Village, the Second Brigade site, 31/ V /2009, D. Sun &amp; Y. W. Zhao leg., 5 females, 2 males (MHBU); Hami City, Xiheba site in the downtown area, 5/ V /2009, D. Sun &amp; Y. W. Zhao leg., 7 females, 6 males (MHBU). <b>Diagnosis.</b> Coloration. Basically brownish-yellow; all carinae and posterior edges of carapace and tergites with blackish-brown to black pigments; dorsal surfaces of segments I–V on metasoma and ventral surface of segment V with irregular netlike dark pigments. Pedipalps: brownish-yellow; femur and patella with dark pigments, especially around carinae; manus with irregular netlike dark pigments; fingers without pigment, rows of granules on dentate margins of the fingers blackish-brown. Legs: pale yellow to yellow; tip of femur with some dark spots. Morphology. Total length 68–78 mm in females and 50–68 mm in males. Prosoma: anterior margin with a weak median convexity, finely serrate; all carinae strong, granular and granules markedly biggish; Mesosoma: Tergite: I to VI tricarinate; all carinae strong, granular, except the median carina on I, weak; the intercarinal surfaces relatively smooth, except for the segments I–III with sparse and fine granules; exterior surfaces coarsely granular. Pectinal teeth number 15–19 in females and 19–23 in males. Metasoma: Segments I–V with 10-8-8-8-5 complete carinae; median lateral carinae complete on segment I, only with sparse granules and covered 1/2 length of segment on II and 1/3 on III; ventrolateral carinae strong, serrate, becoming stronger gradually from anterior to posterior; lateral and dorsal surfaces with some fine granules and ventral with sparse large granules. Aculeus about equal to a half of telson length. Pedipalps: Orthobothriotaxic A-β (Vachon, 1974, 1975). Manus of chela relatively robust. Dentate margins of movable and fixed fingers with 11 and 10 oblique rows of granules respectively; outer accessory denticles becoming smaller from base to tip, and smaller than inner accessory denticles on the tip. Legs: Tarsus ventrally with two moderate to long longitudinal rows of setae. <b>Distribution.</b> China (Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region), Mongolia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan (Fet and Lowe, 2000).
description: Published as part of <i>Sun, Dong &amp; Zhu, Mingsheng, 2010, A new species of the genus Mesobuthus Vachon, 1950 (Scorpiones, Buthidae) from Xinjiang, China, pp. 1-12 in ZooKeys 37 (37)</i> on pages 4-5, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.37.301, http://zenodo.org/record/576621
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