Androctonus crassicauda

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Neoscorpionina
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Scorpiones Subordo: Neoscorpionina

Androctonus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807)

Type locality: Iran, Esfahan Province, Kashan County, 11 km NW of Kashan Town (South of Ab Shirin Village), 34.091°N 51.53°E, 898 m a.s.l.

Neotype: AZMM. male ♂. 05.VII.2019. legit E.A. Yağmur & M. Moradi, AZMM/Sco-2019:1. (Neotype designated by Yağmur et al., 2025a)

Scorpio crassicauda Olivier, 1807: 97, Pl. XLII(=42), fig, 2. Original combination. (Plates in Atlas: LINK (Legend) LINK Alternative)

Buthus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807); Simon, 1872: 247; Simon, 1879: 99; etc.
Prionurus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807); Pocock, 1895: 292, 308-309; Davydov, 1898: 40,47; etc.
Buthus (Prionurus) crassicauda (Olivier, 1807); Birula 1896: 232-233 (part); Birula, 1900: 9; etc.
Androctonus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807); Kraepelin, 1891: 33-35, pI. I, fig. 2; etc; others e.g. Lourenço, 2005: 149, Figs. 5-6 (as broad concept); Yağmur, 2023: 18-22.

[See also Androctonus bicolor (nec Ehrenberg, 1828; MIS): C.L. Koch, 1841: 41, fig. 621. (etc)].

Heterotypic:

Prionurus crassicauda orientalis Birula, 1900: 355-356 (Junior subjective synonym in Levy & Amitai, 1980: 24).
- Type locality: Iran ["Persia"], Eastern Khorasan province. [♀] Sirkuh Province, Chous-Muzafyr, [♂] "Sargad Province" (Serkhed?), Khynikaka.
  - Typus: Syntypes: Female ♀, Male ♂, ZSIP

Maygar: Arab koverfarku skorpio

Olivier, G.A. 1807. Voyage dans l’Empire Othoman, l’Égypte et la Perse, fait par ordre du governement, pendant les six premières années de la République. Henri Agasse, Paris. Vol. 3. Reference page. [= Voy. Emp. ott., see also "Atlas vol.9 " Troisieme livarison" for plates]
Byalynitsky-Birula, A.A. 1900. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Scorpionenfauna Ost-Persiens. (1. Beitrag). Izviestiia Imperatorskoi akademii nauk (= Bulletin de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg) (5) 12(4): 355–375. BHL Reference page.

Lourenço, W.R. 2005. Nouvelles considerations taxonomiques sur les espèces du genre Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828 et description de deux nouvelles espèces (Scorpione, Buthidae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 112(1): 145–171. BHL DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.80291 Reference page.
Yağmur, E.A. 2023. Androctonus kunti sp. n. from Iğdır Province, Turkey (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Euscorpius 371: 1-23. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8005927 Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Yağmur, E.A., Kovařík, F., Fet, V.Y., Lowe, G., Moradi, M. & Kalami, F. 2025. Review of Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828 in Iran, with redescription of A. crassicauda (Olivier, 1807) and A. orientalis (Birula, 1900) stat. n., and descriptions of four new species (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Euscorpius 422: 1-69. Full article (PDF). Reference page.