Study of scorpion species abundance in cities Aran & Bidgol and Kashan, Isfahan, Iran

Among poisonous animals in Iran, scorpions are considered as the most significant medical arthropods from which the most rate of death has been studied caused by their biting every year. This study is to introduce species of scorpions ’abundance in Aran & Bidgol, Iran. The present research was administered in 2014–2015. During the study samples of scorpions collected in Aran & Bidgol and Kashan, Iran. The collection was done through utilizing ultraviolet light, rock-rolling movement, and digging the nests of tiny animals. The samples were identified in departmental environmental health research laboratory using stereo microscope and species identification key. 7 species out of 137 samples were collected in case area. The highest number with the rate of 29 percent was Odontobuthus doriae species and the lowest number was Compsobuthus matthiesseni species with the rate of 3.75 percent. A species with medical significance as Androctonus crassicauda was collected in cities and villages, splits and holes of muddy walls, cellars and basements, under the construction materials, outside the habitations, under the stones, and through the holes in damp old muddy walls. For the first time, Sassanidothus zarudnyi has been reported in Aran & Bidgol.