Hottentotta tamulus
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
Buthidae
Hottentotta
Hottentotta tamulus

description: Hottentotta tamulus (Fabricius, 1798)
(Figs. 12, 45–46, 120–126, 195, 427)
Scorpio tamulus Fabricius, 1798: 294.
Mesobuthus tamulus: Fet & Lowe, 2000: 179–180 (complete reference list until 1998).
Hottentotta tamulus: Kovařík & Ojanguren Affilastro, 2013: 176, figs. 100 5–1008, 1173 (reference list until 2013); Ranawana et al., 2013: 3–7, figs.1–12; Veronika & al., 2013: 73–75, figs. 1, 9–14, tab. 1.
Hottentotta tumulus [sic]: Veronika & al., 2013: 70–71, fig. 1, 9–14, tab. 1.
TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. “ India orientalis”; original type lost. Neotype from India, Maharashtra State, Bombay env., designated by Kovařík, 2007: 76; NMPC.
SRI LANKAN MATERIAL EXAMINED. Sri Lanka, Northern Province, Jaffna District, Palali, 09°44'16.83"N 080° 05'2.88"E, 2012, 1♂, FKCP, col. K. B. Ranawana; Northern Province, Jaffna District, 09°49'15.4"N 080° 08'41.6"E, 19 m a.s.l. (Locality 15CK, Fig. 588), 27. IV.2015, 1♂ (45–46, 120–124, 126, 195, 427) 1♀ im. 1juv., FKCP, 1♀ (Fig. 125) 1juv., UPSL, leg. Kovařík et al.
DIAGNOSIS. Total length 50–90 mm. Trichobothrium db on fixed figer of pedipalp chela situated between trichobothria et and est, but may be level with est. Males with proximal margins of pedipalp fingers flexed, manus of pedipalps wider than female. Pectinal teeth number 30–39 in males, 27–34 in females. Chelicerae yellow, reticulated. Pedipalps densely hirsute, legs and metasoma sparsely hirsute. Setae on patella of pedipalps short. Color uniformly yellow to reddish, mesosoma dark. Ventral carinae on metasomal segments usually black. Pedipalp femur with 5 carinae, patella with two or 4 carinae on internal surface, no other carinae. Chela lacking carinae. Movable fingers of pedipalps with 13– 15 rows of granules and 5 or 6 terminal granules. Seventh sternite with 4 well marked black carinae. First to third metasomal segments with 10 carinae; fourth with 10 or rarely 8 carinae; fifth with 5 or 7 carinae. Metasoma sparsely to densely granulated between carinae. Dorsal surface densely and very finely granulated, often bearing two short, inconspicuous marginal carinae. Telson granulated. Dorsal carinae of metasomal segments with posterior terminal granules of size approximately equal to preceding granules. First metasomal segments of adult female wider than long (in male usually as long as wide), second metasomal segment longer than wide in both sexes. Second to fourth metasomal segments width ratio about 1.1. Length to width ratio of fourth metasomal segment about 1.5. Telson bulbous, especially in large females.
DISTRIBUTION. India (Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Pondicherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal States), Pakistan, 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 page 31, DOI: 10.18590/euscorpius.2016.vol2016.iss220.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7124466