Soltan-Alinejad Parisa, Parsaei Saman, Dianat Ali, Nikbakhtazadeh Mahmood, Azizi Kourosh
Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control School of Health Shiraz University of Medical Sciences Shiraz Iran.
Department of Health Sciences and Human Ecology California State University San Bernardino California USA.
Ecol Evol. 2021 Oct 24;11(22):15630-15638. doi: 10.1002/ece3.8211. eCollection 2021 Nov.
Natural selection and sexual selection are cardinal factors in shaping the body of animals such as scorpions. (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae) has a worldwide distribution. Sexual dimorphism has been reported from this species in a study in Egypt. Morphometry is used to determine the sexual dimorphism between the two sexes. In the current study, scorpions were collected from six locations of the southern and northern provinces of Fars, Iran. In this study, 53 morphological characters of 15 specimens of each sex of were studied based on statistical analyses; however, dimorphism was only observed in 21 morphological characters, including chelicerae and carapace length, pedipalp characters, width of the second segment of metasoma, telson and pectin length, number of left pectin teeth, and some of the leg's segments. It means that these characters are in the control of sexual and natural selection. This study was performed for the first time on species in Iran.
自然选择和性选择是塑造蝎子等动物身体的主要因素。（蝎目：钳蝎科）分布于世界各地。在埃及的一项研究中报告了该物种存在两性异形。形态测量学用于确定两性之间的两性异形。在当前研究中，蝎子采集自伊朗法尔斯省南部和北部的六个地点。在本研究中，基于统计分析对每种性别的15个标本的53个形态特征进行了研究；然而，仅在21个形态特征中观察到两性异形，包括螯肢和头甲长度、触肢特征、后体第二节宽度、尾节和栉齿数、左栉齿数以及腿部的一些节段。这意味着这些特征受性选择和自然选择的控制。本研究首次在伊朗的[具体物种]上进行。
