Pandinops peeli (Pocock, 1900)

Kovařík, František, 2016, Scorpions of the Horn of Africa (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Part VIII. Pandinops Birula, 1913 (Scorpionidae) with description of two new species, Euscorpius 229, pp. 1-20 : 11

Pandinops peeli (Pocock, 1900)

( Figs. 66, 69)

Pandinus peeli Pocock, 1900a: 53 , fig. 2, plate IV.

Pandinus (Pandinops) peeli: Birula, 1913: 419–422 , fig. b; Vachon, 1974: 953; Fet, 2000: 469 (complete reference list until 2000); Kovařík, 2003: 150 (in part); Kovařík, 2009: 53, 118, figs. 321–322 (in part).

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Somaliland, Berbera or Hargaisa , BMNH.

TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Somaliland, Berbera, 16. April 1895 or Hargaisa, 25.–28. April. 1895, leg. C . V. A. Peel, 1♂ (holotype, Fig. 66 and figs. 321–322 in Kovařík , 2009: 118) , BMNH No. 1900.0.3.15.2.

DIAGNOSIS. Male holotype 88 mm long, female unknown. Base color uniformly reddish brown to black, legs and telson yellow. Carapace smooth in middle, several granules sparsely along margins only. Internal trichobothria on chela number 7, ventral trichobothria on chela number 9–11. Pedipalp chela hirsute rather sparsely. Pedipalp chela dorsally tuberculated, without pointed granules. Chela internal smooth with two longitudinal carinae indicated by 4–6 granules. Chela of male length/ width ratio is 1.65. Pectinal teeth number 15 in male, female unknown. Sternite VII bears numerous granules without carinae. Metasomal segments I–IV ventrally without carinae; segments I–V ventrally granulated, segments III–V more densely and intensively than in segments I–II. Length to width ratio of male metasomal segment V is 1.92.