DEADLY SCORPION HABITATS OF IRAN

Abstract

ABSTRACT Scorpions are among the most dangerous arthropods in Iran. These animals bite a large number of people in all over the country every year, especially in warm and humid regions of South and South-west, resulting in clinical complications and death. This study is to introduce deadly scorpions' habitats of Iran such as Hemiscorpiuslepturus, Odontobuthusdoriae and Androctonuscrassicauda. There search is descriptive and tacking samples lasted 20 years, during 1992 to 2012, from some provinces; Khuzestan, Kerman, Isfahan, Qom, Markazi, and Chaharmahal and bakhtiari. Utilizing Black Light, Rock-rolling, excavation, and Digging were the methods used for sampling. The habitats of those perilous scorpions that do not dig, such as Hemiscorpiuslepturus and Androctonuscrassicauda, are in cities and villages, splits and holes of muddy walls, cellar sand basements, splits of streetkerbs, under the construction materials, outside the habitations, under the stones beneath the trees bark, through the holes in damp old muddy walls, and inside the other animals' nests. But the scorpions called Diggers, such as Odontobuthusdoriae, live in the hills lopes, embankments beside the roads or railways, and inside the dugout nests. Survey results show that deadly scorpions, except Odontobuthusdoriae, as opportunist animals live in the holes or under the stones in habitats or the regions pertaining to the deserts. Although, the way you build a house or different kinds of materials you use to construct are effective in exceeding these arthropods