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

Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics

مقالات آماده انتشار، پذیرفته شده، انتشار آنلاین از تاریخ 11 خرداد 1404

نوع مقاله: Original Article

شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22067/ijab.2025.92965.1098

نویسندگان

Hossein Barahoei^{* 1}؛ Mostafa Farmani²؛ Mehran Shahi³؛ Saideh Yousefi⁴؛ Madineh Abbasi⁵؛ Farzad Rahmani⁶

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

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

³Department 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

⁴Sirjan School of Medical Sciences, Sirjan, Iran

⁵Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

⁶Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine Road Traffic Injury Research Center Health Management Research Institute Imam Reza Medical Research & Training Hospital, Sina Medical Research & Training Hospital Tabriz

چکیده

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. Understanding the distribution of various Androctonus species is crucial for determining their habitat conditions, preventing scorpion stings, and developing specific antivenoms tailored to each species for effective treatment.

کلیدواژه‌ها

Fauna؛ Androctonus؛ taxonomy؛ morphology؛ Azarbaijan؛ Iran