Leiurus - Wikipedia
Leiurus is a genus of scorpion of the family Buthidae. The most common species, L. quinquestriatus, is also known under the common name Deathstalker. It is distributed widely across North Africa and the Middle East, including the western and southern Arabian Peninsula and southeastern Turkey.
Jordan's Black Deathstalker - Leiurus jordanensis
Nov 14, 2002 · I have heard that Leiurus jordanensis is a color morph of leiurus quinquestriatus Click to expand... According to the description*, you have differences in colour, several differences in carinae -- both in the basic carinae as well as accesory structures, granulation and morphometric values.
Remarks: This species, previously regarded as a subspecies of Leiurus quinques-triatus (Ehrenberg, 1828), is the most venomous scorpion species in Jordan (Amr et al., 1994). It is also the most common species with a wide distribution cover-ing much of the western part of the country (Levy et al., 1970; Wahbeh, 1976;
Leiurus jordanensis male topotype. A. Carapace and tergites ...
The remarkable buthid scorpion Leiurus jordanensis Lourenço, Modry and Amr, 2002, discovered in the south of Jordan, was described on the basis of a single adult female probably. Limited...
Zuhair S. Amr & Mohammad Abu Baker, Jordan - NTNU
Leiurus jordenensis Lourenço, Modry & Amr , 2002 . Diagnosis : Body coloration generally blackish brown with some diffused pale spots on prosoma and mesosoma. Five carines present on tergites I and II. Metasomal carinae are strongly …
Leiurus jordanensis shows a conspicuous coloration pattern which is globally dark, blackish to brownish. Only one other species of Leiurus equally presents a dark pattern of coloration, Leiurus...
Jordan Journal of Natural History Details | RSCN
The remarkable buthid scorpion Leiurus jordanensis Lourenço, Modry and Amr, 2002, discovered in the south of Jordan, was described on the basis of a single adult female probably. Limited information on adult males were presented in subsequent publications.
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