Stenodactylus arabicus (Haas, 1957)

HOLOTYPE. CAS 84321.

TYPE LOCALITY. Abqaiq, Eastern Region, Saudi Arabia.

DISTRIBUTION. The southeastern Arabian Peninsula (Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Iran). DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig 63. Known only from one recently recorded locality in Khuzestan Prov. (Fathinia et al. 2014).

HABITAT. Areas of windblown sand and sand dunes with sparse shrubby vegetation.

REMARKS. A sister species to S. sharqiyahensis Metallinou & Carranza from eastern Oman (Metallinou & Carranza 2013).

REFERENCES. Arnold (1980a); Metallinou et al. (2012); Metallinou & Carranza (2013); Fathinia et al. (2014).