Buthus draa
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Ordo: Scorpiones
Familia: Buthidae
Genus: Buthus
Name
Buthus draa Lourenço & Slimani, 2004 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Buthus draa: Lourenço and Slimani 2004[1]: 166–169, fig. 1–7; Lourenço, Sun and Zhu 2009: p. 72, fig. 2–6; Stockmann and Ythier 2010[2]: 362–363; Touloun and Boumezzough 2011b[3]: 186; Habel et al. 2012[4]: 2, 4; Sousa et al. 2012[5]: 68–69; Pedroso et al. 2013[6]: 300; Yang et al. 2013[7]: 2; Aboumaâd et al. 2014[8]: 6; El Hidan et al. 2016: 4.
- Buthus occitanus tunetanus neeli (MIS): Touloun et al. 1999[9]: 1–2.
- Buthus tassili (MIS): Touloun 2012[10]: 37, 40–41, fig.7.
Type material
1 M holotype (UCAM), Taznakht (30.51853°, -7.02595°), Ouarzazate, Morocco. Paratypes: 1 M, 2 F (UCAM), 1 M, 1 F (ZMH), 2 M, 1 F (MNHN), all from the same locality; 1 M (ZMH), Aït Bassou; 2 F juv. (ZMH), Aït Ounzar Oulad Aissa; 1 M (ZMH), near Agdez; 1 M (ZMH), Oulad Hlal. The ZMH accession number for all paratypes is A7/03.
Distribution
B. draa can be found in the upper part of the Draa River, probably at elevations below 1500 m a.s.l.
Remarks
B. draa shares with B. tassili and B. nigrovesiculosus the presence of a darkened fifth metasoma segment and telson.
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, Slimani T (2004) Description of a new scorpion species of the genus Buthus Leach, 1815 (Scorpiones, Buthidae) from Morocco. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg 14: 165–170.
- ↑ Stockmann R, Ythier É (2010) Scorpions of the World. N.A. P Editions, Rodez, 572 pp. http://www.napeditions.com/en/scorpions/20-scorpions-du-monde.html#idTab2.
- ↑ Touloun O, Boumezzough A (2011b) Contribution à l'inventaire et à la répartition des scorpions de la province de Sidi Ifni (Maroc). Poiretia 3: 8–15.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Sousa P, Harris D, Froufe E, van der Meijden A (2012) Phylogeographic patterns of Buthus scorpions (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in the Maghreb and South-Western Europe based on CO1 mtDNA sequences. Journal of Zoology 288: 66–75. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2012.00925.x
- ↑ Pedroso D, Sousa P, Harris D, van der Meijden A (2013) Phylogeography of Buthus Leach, 1815 (Scorpiones: Buthidae): a multigene molecular approach reveals a further complex evolutionary history in the Maghreb. African Invertebrates 48: 298–308. https://doi.org/10.3377/004.048.0216
- ↑ Yang X, Norma-Rashid Y, Lourenço W, Zhu M (2013) True lateral eye numbers for extant buthids: a new discovery on an old character. PloS One 8: e55125. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055125
- ↑ 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, Slimani T, Boumezzough A (1999) Decouverte au Maroc de Buthus occitanus tunetanus var. neeli Gysin, 1969 (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Arachnides 41: 28–30.
- ↑ Touloun O (2012) Chapitre III. Ecologie et repartition de la scorpiofaune du Sud Ouest Marocain. In: Les peuplements de scorpions du sud ouest marocain: Ecologie, Biogéographie et Epidémiologie des envenimations. Éditions universitaires européennes, Saarbrücken, 30–82.
