Stenodactylus Fitzinger, 1826

Stenodactylus affinis (Murray, 1884)

SYNTYPES. BMNH 1946.8 .23.33 (ex. BMNH 84.7.25.1), BMNH 1946.8 .23.60 (ex. BMNH 87.9.22.2).

TYPE LOCALITY. Tanjistan, Persia [Tangestan, Bushehr Prov., Iran].

DISTRIBUTION. Iraq, Kuwait, Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 62. Restricted to the Mesopotamian Plain (Ilam, Khuzestan Prov.) and areas along the Persian Gulf coast (Bushehr and Hormozgan Prov.) .

HABITAT. The Iranian specimens were caught in “... a gravelled site on gypsum foothills with Alhagi camelorum vegetation” (Fathinia et al. 2009), under stones in a cultivated field and on an unpaved road (Anderson 1999).

REMARKS. The closest relatives of S. affinis are S. grandiceps from the Levant and S. slevini from the Arabian Peninsula (Metallinou et al. 2012).

REFERENCES. Arnold (1980a); Anderson (1999); Torki (2010d); Metallinou et al. (2012); Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2013b); Kamali (2013a).