Buthus albengai
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Ordo: Scorpiones
Familia: Buthidae
Genus: Buthus
Name
Buthus albengai Lourenço, 2003 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Buthus albengai: Lourenço 2003[1]: 902–904, fig. 70–74; Lourenço and Geniez 2005[2]: 5; Aboumaâd et al. 2014[3]: 6; Touloun et al. 2014[4]: 76; Lourenço 2016b[5]: fig. 3.
Type material
1 F holotype (MHNG), Ito Plateau (approx. 33.51°, -5.3°), Ifrane, Morocco. Paratypes: 3 F, same locality; 2 juv., Ifrane (Cedars woods); 1 M, 1 F juv., region north of Kenifra (all in MHNG).
Distribution
known from an area in Morocco that extends from ifrane to Kenifra.
Remarks
It is one of the largest known Buthus species. Records by Habel et al. (2012)[6] south of the High-Atlas are most likely misidentifications.
Taxon Treatment
- Sousa, P; Arnedo, M; Harris, D; 2017: Updated catalogue and taxonomic notes on the Old-World scorpion genus Buthus Leach, 1815 (Scorpiones, Buthidae) ZooKeys, (686): 15-84. doi
Other References
- ↑ Lourenço W (2003) Compléments à la faune de scorpions (Arachnida) de l'Afrique du Nord, avec des considérations sur le genre Buthus Leach, 1815. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 110: 875–912.
- ↑ Lourenço W, Geniez P (2005) A new scorpion species of the genus Buthus Leach, 1815 (Scorpiones, Buthidae) from Morocco. Euscorpius 19: 1–6. http://www.science.marshall.edu/fet/euscorpius/p2005_19.pdf.
- ↑ Aboumaâd B, Iba N, Dersi N (2014) L'envenimation scorpionique au Maroc: scorpions du genre Androctonus, Buthus et Hottentota. Bulletin de la Société de pathologie exotique 107: 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13149-014-0332-7
- ↑ Touloun O, Elhidan M, Boumezzough A (2014) Inventory and distribution of scorpion fauna in eastern Morocco (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Serket 14: 72–79.
- ↑ Lourenço W (2016b) Scorpion incidents, misidentification cases and possible implications for the final interpretation of results. Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases 22: 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40409-016-0075-6
- ↑ Habel J, Husemann M, Schmitt T, Zachos F, Honnen A, Petersen B, Parmakelis A, Stathi I (2012) Microallopatry caused strong diversification in Buthus scorpions (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in the Atlas Mountains (NW Africa). PloS One 7: e29403. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029403
