Mesobuthus caucasicus in Ukraine

Excerpt from the catalog of Viktor Fet (he is attached below):

Labeling error? Is there anyone from the Odessa region here?

Personally, I have never seen such animals...

Meeting them, especially if the population is extremely local and small, is not easy, especially given the nocturnal lifestyle. The most effective way to search is at night with an ultraviolet flashlight (under UV, they fluoresce with a bright salad light). If there was a military-political situation, as before the Maidan, I would go to Severinovka myself, a very interesting subject of research, if, of course, it is true.

This is not a mistake, copies are in the ZIN, published by Balashov in Ent. obozr. 1973. Vasiliev told me about Chersonskaya in the 1970s, but I didn't see any copies anywhere.

Viktor Yakovich, thank you so much for responding! But is the labeling error completely eliminated? Because this is a very unusual find, completely isolated from the rest of the range, and in a climate, as it seems to me, not the most suitable. It's also strange that there haven't been any more reports since then. A scorpion, and even more so a fairly large size - this is not some kind of shell mite, which can only be noticed by a specialist. If there were a stable population in the south of Ukraine, there would have to be a bunch of newspaper articles from frightened townsfolk, up to the involvement of TV. I have heard from biologists in Donetsk about Mediterranean turtles and even cobras allegedly found on the Belosarayskaya Spit. What about cobras - I personally talked to a man (a respectable father of a Tatar family) who claimed to have caught "flying frogs" in Crimean vineyards. A few years ago, half the country caught the chupocabra, and the Ukrainian chupocabra turned out to be a special subspecies - bright orange. It seems that with such a mentality of the population, if near Odessa or somewhere else in a densely populated region these scorpions lived in numbers exceeding several units, then in folk legends they would quickly grow to the size of heterometruses, and their toxicity would be equal to androktonus, and the media would periodically trumpet this (at least for the first time). until 2014, after that they were no longer interested in animals). Our media also have special zoological "talents" - once in the Crimea, "penguins who arrived for the winter" were discovered, and they would certainly have picked up such a wonderful news about a scorpion and inflated it with special zeal. But no, everything is deaf. This is strange and alarming. If I hadn't accidentally come across your monograph, I would have grown old in the firm belief that only one species of scorpion lived in Ukraine in the historical past, and even that one "left" along with the Crimea.