Iomachus laeviceps

Monod, Lionel, Duperre, Nadine & Harms, Danilo, 2019, An annotated catalogue of the scorpion types (Arachnida, Scorpiones) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg. Part I: Parvorder Iurida Soleglad & Fet, 2003, Evolutionary Systematics 3 (2), pp. 109-200 : 109

Iomachus laeviceps

Iomachus laeviceps Pocock, 1890: 242-244, pl. XII, fig. 1, 1a

Current combination.

Iomachus laeviceps Pocock, 1890

Not types.

1 ♂, 1 ♀ (ZMH-A0000876), [India], [Western Ghats], [Tamil Nadu], Nilgiri Hills [11°15 ’10” N, 76°30 ’48” E], 1'000 feet [ca. 305 m], 6.06.1897, J. R. Henderson, BMNH don.

Remarks.

These specimens, listed by Weidner (1959: 101) as paratypes, are not part of the type series. Iomachus laeviceps was described from a series of specimens collected in Madras by E. Thurston. Pocock mentioned two specimens from Anamalai Hills, Coimbatore that he described later as Iomachus punctulatus (Pocock, 1897b). The two specimens here belong to the species I. laeviceps and are not part of either series, although they were donated to Kraepelin by the British Museum. The rest of the present series (one male, one female, four juveniles) is present in the BMNH collections.