Study on Fauna Scorpion of Ilam Province, Western of Iran

Scorpion bite is one of our medical problems, but what is important regarding this matter is a fear that people have about this creature. Unfortunately a precise and right statistics toward the risk of this creature bite does not exist. Till based on that, it would be possible to recognize scorpion bite of our society is related to what species and it has what a status among category of death causes and based on that prepare a antivenom monovalan related to every scorpion; surely we cannot deny this problem in south and west regions of our country specially for hot seasons. By regarding the medically importance of the scorpions and human's healthy and also by regarding the lacks of taxonomic and funa studies about scorpions in Iran, this research has paid about the recognition of Ilam province scorpions, species frequency and geographically distribution. In this research first, Ilam province based on geography position, scorpion biting domain, climate and local researches divided to 14 region of sampling. By use of valid identifying keys such as Navid pour (2008), samples recognizes, frequency of scorpion species in each climate region has showed and their distribution map by use of GIS software has drawn. In Ilam province, among 390 hunted scorpion, 10 species include Hottentotta saulcyi (23.07), Mesobuthus eupeus (22.56), Compsobuthus matthiesseni (13.07), hemiscorpius lepturus (12.3), Orthochirus iranus (7.94), Razianus zarudnyi (4.87), Androctonus crassicaudata (4.1), Buthacus macrocentrus (3.33), Scorpio maurus (2.56), Odontobuthus bidentatus (1.02) scorpion identified.