Figure 12: Leiurus jordenensis

Leiurus jordenensis Lourenço, Modry & Amr, 2002  

Diagnosis: Body coloration generally blackish brown. Prosoma: black and heavily granulated. Mesosoma: five keels present on the first and second tergites. Metasoma: crests are strongly marked and inter crestal spaces smooth to shagreened. Ventral side of tarsi with numerous setae not arranged in straight rows. Pectines 30 in females.

Measurements: Total average length 7.4cm, carapace length 0.85cm, length of metasomal segment I 0.6cm, length of metasomal segment V 1.06cm, vesicle width 0.34cm, length of movable finger 1.36cm.

Habitat and distribution: the species was described from a desert habitat composed of sandstone cliffs surrounded by flat sand dunes from southern Jordan on the basis of a female specimen (Lourenço et al. 2002). According to Lourenço et al. (2002) the species distribution appears limited to an enclave within the area in which its most related species (Leiurus quinquestriatus) is distributed. 

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