New records of Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828 from East Azarbaijan Province, Iran (Scorpiones: Buthidae)

Document Type : Research articles

Authors

• Hossein Barahoei ¹
• Mostafa Farmani ²
• Mehran Shahi ³
• Saideh Yousefi ⁴
• Farzad Rahmani ⁵
• Madineh Abbasi ⁵

¹ Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Agricultural Research Institute, Research Institute of Zabol, Zabol, Iran

² Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Faculty of Medicine Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

³ Department of Medical Entomology & Vector Control, School of Public Health, Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Hormozgan Health Institute, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran

⁴ Sirjan School of Medical Sciences, Sirjan, Iran

⁵ Emergency and Trauma Care Research center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.

10.22067/ijab.2025.92965.1098

Abstract

Limited studies have been conducted on the scorpions of East Azarbaijan Province, resulting in the identification of seven Buthid species. The examination of Androctonus specimens collected from East Azarbaijan Province between 2021–2023 resulted in the identification of two new records, A. kunti Yağmur, 2023 and A. turkiyensis Yağmur, 2021. These two species were collected and described from east and south of Turkey respectively and recorded here for the first time from Iran. With the identification of A. kunti and A. turkiyensis, which before reported as Androctonus crassicauda, the total number of reported scorpion species in East Azarbaijan Province raised to eight, while the number of Androctonus species documented in Iran  rose to six. Diagnostic characters of the two species and an identification key to Iranian Androctonus were provided.

Keywords

• Fauna
• Androctonus
• taxonomy
• morphology
• Azarbaijan
• Iran

Main Subjects

• Morphology
• Taxonomy
• Zoogeography

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