Androctonus Ishtar sp. north. From the provinces of Dohuk and Nineve
ABSTRACT
A new species, Androctonus Ishtar sp. north.It is described and illustrated from the provinces Dohuk and Nineveh of Iraq. This new species was wrongly identified as A. Cassicauda Olivier. Summeric Androtonus Al-khazali and yağmur, and A. Turkiyensis Yağmur, are distributed in territories near those of A. Ishtar sp. north. The new species differs from A. Cassicauda in the morphology of the fifth target tester segment, of A. Sumericus In his elongated chela, and A. Turkiyensis In the tricobotrial provision on the fixed fingers of the Quela.
Yağmur, EA, Kachel, HS, Al-Khazali, AM, Al-Jubouri, Mak and Ali, FR (2025). Androctonus Ishtar sp. north. Of the Dohuk and Nineive provinces, Iraq (Scorpions: Buthidae). Natural History Magazine, 59(25–28), 1757–1773. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2025.2496290
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