Protoiurus Soleglad, Fet, Kovařík et Yağmur, 2012

Soleglad, Michael E., Fet, Victor, Kovařík, František & Yağmur, Ersen Aydın, 2012, Etudes on iurids, V. Further revision of Iurus Thorell, 1876 (Scorpiones: Iuridae), with a description of a new genus and two new species, Euscorpius 143, pp. 1-70 : 16-17

Genus Protoiurus Soleglad, Fet, Kovařík et Yağmur ,

gen. nov.

Type Species. Protoiurus asiaticus ( Birula, 1903) [= Iurus dufoureius asiaticus Birula, 1903 ], designated here.

References (selected):

Iurus: Thorell, 1877: 193 (in part); Pavesi, 1878: 360 (in part); Kraepelin, 1899: 178 (in part); Borelli, 1913: 2 (in part); Caporiacco, 1928: 240; Menozzi, 1941: 234; Roewer, 1943: 235; Caporiacco, 1948: 27; Vachon, 1951: 342; Gruber, 1963: 308; Gruber, 1966: 424; Vachon, 1966a: 453 (in part); Vachon, 1966b: 215 (in part); Stahnke, 1974: 114 (in part); Kinzelbach, 1975: 21 (in part); Francke, 1981: 221 (in part); Francke & Soleglad, 1981: 251 (in part); Kinzelbach, 1982: 58 (in part); Kinzelbach, 1985: map IV (in part); Vachon & Kinzelbach, 1987: 99 (in part); Sissom, 1990: 130 (in part); Kritscher, 1993: 381 (in part); Crucitti, 1995a: 1 (in part); Crucitti & Malori, 1998: 133 (in part); Kovařík, 1998: 136 (in part); Crucitti, 1999a: 87 (in part); Kovařík, 1999a: 42 (in part); Fet, 2000: 49 (in part); Fet & Braunwalder, 2000: 18 (in part); Sissom & Fet, 2000: 419 (in part); Crucitti & Cicuzza, 2001: 227 (in part); Stathi & Mylonas, 2001: 290 (in part); Soleglad & Fet, 2003b: 110 (in part); Fet et al., 2004: 18 (in part); Kovařík & Whitman, 2005: 113; Parmakelis et al., 2006: 253 (in part); Fet & Soleglad, 2008: 256 (in part); Francke & Prendini, 2008: 218 (in part); Kaltsas et al., 2008: 227 (in part); Kovařík, 2009: 27 (in part); Soleglad et al., 2009: 2 (in part); Yağmur et al., 2009: 154 (in part); Fet, 2010: 8 (in part); Kovařík et al., 2010: 10 (in part); Stockmann & Ythier, 2010: 531 (in part).

Jurus (incorrect subsequent spelling): Kraepelin, 1894: 183 (in part); Birula, 1898: 133 (in part); Werner, 1902: 605 (in part); Birula, 1903: 297 (in part); von Ubisch, 1922: 503; Werner, 1934a: 162 (in part); Werner, 1934b: 282 (in part); Werner, 1936a: 192 (in part); Werner, 1936b: 17; Werner, 1938: 172 (in part); Vachon, 1947a: 162; Vachon, 1947b: 2; Vachon, 1948: 62 (in part); Vachon, 1951: 343; Vachon, 1953: 96 (in part).

Distribution. GREECE: islands: Karpathos, Kasos, Megisti, Rhodes, Saria. TURKEY: Adana, Adıyaman, Antalya, Isparta, Kahramanmaraş, Karaman, Konya, Mersin, Muğla, and Niğde Provinces. See general map in Fig. 6.

Etymology. The generic name is derived from the Ancient Greek πρωτο- ( proto -), combination form of πρῶτος ( protos, “first”, “ancestral”), and Iurus , indicates a more primitive genus based on its presumed plesiomorphic position within Iurinae .