Hottentotta penjabensis (Birula, 1897) Kovařík, 2007

Kovařík, František, 2007, A revision of the genus Hottentotta Birula, 1908, with descriptions of four new species (Scorpiones, Buthidae), Euscorpius 58 (58), pp. 1-107 : 50-57

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.18590/euscorpius.2007.vol2007.iss58.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:757F81BB-485C-4959-BD78-7B1172359ACF
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B62B3424-2F4C-FFF3-2145-187708E4FF3E
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Hottentotta penjabensis (Birula, 1897)
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Hottentotta penjabensis (Birula, 1897) View in CoL comb. n.

( Figs. 82–83 View Figure 82 View Figure 83 )

Buthus hottentotta View in CoL (in part): Kraepelin, 1891: 192 (Birula, 1897: 377).

Buthus alticola forma beta ( penjabensis View in CoL ) Birula, 1897: 382.

Buthus alticola penjabensis : Kraepelin, 1899: 21; Pocock, 1900a: 22; Kraepelin, 1913: 127; Vachon, 1958: 139.

Buthus (Hottentotta) alticola pendjabensis : Birula, 1914: 654.

Buthus (Hottentotta) alticola pendschabensis : Birula, 1917: 241.

Buthotus alticola penjabensis : Pérez Minocci, 1974: 21.

Buthotus alticola punjabensis : Tikader & Bastawade, 1983: 164.

Hottentotta (Hottentotta) alticola penjabensis View in CoL : Kovařík, 1998: 109; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 136.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Northern Punjab , India ; now Pakistan or India; ZISP.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Pakistan, Baluchistan, Hazarganji Chiltan n. p., 10 km W from Quetta , 18.VII.1998, 2♂ 1♀, leg. L. Černý, FKCP ; Baluchistan, Zhob , VI. 2006, 2♂ ( Figs. 82–83 View Figure 82 View Figure 83 ), leg. Zubair Ahmed, FKCP .

DIAGNOSIS. Total length 60–90 mm. For habitus see Figs. 82–83 View Figure 82 View Figure 83 . Trichobothrium db on the fixed finger of pedipalp situated between trichobothria et and est ( Fig. 1 View Figures 1–4 ). Chelicerae yellow to black, reticulate. Male with slightly longer and narrower metasomal segments, width of pedipalp chela same in both sexes. Pectinal teeth number 29–34 in males, 23–26 in females. Pedipalps and metasoma sparsely hirsute. The hairs on patella of pedipalps are long. Color yellow to yellowish green or brown except black anterior part of carapace and fingers of pedipalps; in some specimens entire carapace and mesosomal segments except seventh tergite may be black ( Fig. 82 View Figure 82 ). Femur of pedipalp with 5 carinae, patella with 8 carinae, chela lacks carinae. Movable fingers of pedipalps with 14 or 15 rows of granules and 6 terminal granules. Seventh metasomal segment with 4 well marked ventral carinae. First metasomal segment with 10 carinae; second segment with 8 or 10 carinae; third and fourth segments with 8 carinae; fifth segment with 5 carinae, 3 ventral (1 median, 2 lateral) and 2 dorsal. Dorsal carinae of metasomal segments bear larger terminal granules. Dorsal surface smooth, but fourth and fifth segments bear 2 short, inconspicuous carinae each. First and second metasomal segments of both sexes longer than wide. Second to fourth metasomal segment width ratio less than 1.1.

COMMENTS. Fet & Lowe (2000: 136) state that the type locality is probably in Pakistan, not in India as assumed by previous authors. An occurrence of this species in Pakistan, Quetta , published by Vachon (1959: 139) was based on BMNH specimens. Also, specimens in my collection are from the vicinity of Quetta (Hazarganji Chiltan n. p.). Two males were found by the Pakistani arachnologist Zubair Ahmed at Zhob ( Figs. 82–83 View Figure 82 View Figure 83 ). The species is known from only a small number of specimens. Vachon (1959: 139) measured an immature male from Quetta ( BMNH) at 46 mm, but Tikader & Bastawade (1983: 165) gave length of the same specimen as 50 mm. An adult male collected by Zubair Ahmed is 85 mm long. Total length of 87 mm is given by Birula (1914: 656) .

DISTRIBUTION: Pakistan (? Birula, 1897: 382),? India (? Birula, 1897: 382).