Timon princeps Blanford, 1874

HOLOTYPE. ZSI 3351.

TYPE LOCALITY. “ Persia meridionali” [= southern Iran]; the locality was more specified by Boulenger (1920) as “near Niriz [Neyriz], about 100 miles east of Shiraz, S. Persia ”.

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 116. From southern Kermanshah Prov. in a belt between the western Zagros hillsides and the Mesopotamian Plain to central Fars Prov.

HABITAT. Dry steppe hilly habitats with xerothermic vegetation ( Amygdalus, Pistacia).

REMARKS. By separating T. kurdistanicus into a separate species T. princeps became endemic to the Zagros foothills in Iran.

REFERENCES. Eiselt (1968, 1969); Anderson (1999); Arnold et al. (2007); Ghaffari & Parsa (2007); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2012).