Buthus israelis
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Ordo: Scorpiones
Familia: Buthidae
Genus: Buthus
Name
Buthus israelis Shulov & Amitai, 1959 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Buthus occitanus mardochei israelis: Shulov and Amitai 1959[1]: 219–225, fig. 1–3.
- Buthus occitanus israelis: Pérez 1974[2]: 23; Vachon and Kinzelbach 1987[3]: 101; Fet and Lowe 2000[4]: 95; Skutelsky 1995[5]: 46; Skutelsky 1996[6]: 50
- Buthus occitanus israelis (Shulov & Amitai, 1959): Levy and Amitai 1980[7]: 16–21, fig. 25–29; EI-Hennawy 1992: 101, 120; Kovařík 2006[8]: 10; Lourenço, Yağmur and Duhem 2010: 96.
- Buthus intumescens (MIS): Kovařík 2006[8] (part): 10–11.
- Buthus israelis: Lourenço, Yağmur and Duhem 2010: 96–97; Yağmur, Koç and Lourenço 2011: 29.
- Buthus israelis (Shulov & Amitai, 1959): Rossi 2013[9]: 191–192; Rossi, Tropea and Yağmur 2013: 2–3, 6–7.
- Buthus occitanus mardochei israelis: Vachon 1966[10]: 211; Kovařík 2006[8]: 10; Lourenço, Yağmur and Duhem 2010: 95.
- Buthus occitanus typicus: Bodenheimer 1937[11]: 235.
Type material
holotype lost (sex unknown), Mash’abbe Sade (as Mashavei Sadé) (approx. 31°, 34.78°), Negev desert, Israel.
Distribution
This species has been recorded in Egypt (the Sinai Peninsula) and Israel. Notwithstanding, Kovařík (2006)[8] considered this species to be a junior synonym of B. intumescens.
Remarks
Levy and Amitai (1980)[7] did not designate any neotype when they re-described the species. In contrast to the several infrasubspecific taxa described by Vachon that are unavailable according to the ICZN, B. o. israelis is an available name according to the ICZN article 45.6.4.1 (“a name that is infrasubspecific under Article 45.6.4 is nevertheless deemed to be subspecific from its original publication if, before 1985, it was either adopted as the valid name of a species or subspecies or was treated as a senior homonym”), which is the present case as Levy and Amitai redescribed this taxon before 1985, and thus articles 45.5 and 45.5.1 do not apply. Several authors wrongly report the original authors of the species in parenthesis. The use of parenthesis is only to be made when a species is changed from one genus to another (ICZN article 51.3), which is clearly not the case with B. israelis.
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
- ↑ Shulov A, Amitai P (1959) Observations sur les Scorpions. Buthus occitanus ssp. mardochei var. israelis var. nov. Archives de l'Institut Pasteur d'Algérie 37: 218–225.
- ↑ Pérez S (1974) Un inventario preliminar de los escorpiones de la region Paleartica y claves para la identification de los generos de la region Paleartica Occidental. Cátedra de Artrópodos 7: 1–45.
- ↑ Vachon M, Kinzelbach R (1987) On the taxonomy and distribution of the scorpions of the Middle East. In: Krupp F Schneider W Kinzelbach R (Eds) Proceeding of the Symposium on the Fauna and Zoogeography of the Middle East, Mainz, 1985. (Beihefte zum Tübingen Atls des Vorderen Orients). Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden, 91–103.
- ↑ Fet V, Lowe G (2000) Genus Buthus Leach, 1815. In: Fet V Sissom W Lowe G Braunwalder M (Eds) Catalog of the Scorpions of the World (1758-1998). The New York Entomological Society, New York, 91–97.
- ↑ Skutelsky O (1995) Flexibility in foraging tactics of Buthus occitanus scorpions as a response to above-ground activity of termites. Journal of Arachnology 23: 46–47.
- ↑ Skutelsky O (1996) Predation risk and state-dependent foraging in scorpions: effects of moonlight on foraging in the scorpion Buthus occitanus. Animal Behaviour 52: 49–57. https://doi.org/10.1006/anbe.1996.0151
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Levy G, Amitai P (1980) Fauna Palaestina. Arachnida I: Scorpiones. The Israel Academy of Sciences an d Humanit es, Jerusalem, 172 pp.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Kovařík F (2006) Review of Tunisian Species of the Genus Buthus with Descriptions of Two New Species and a Discussion of Ehrenberg’s Types (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Euscorpius 34: 1–16. http://www.science.marshall.edu/fet/euscorpius/p2006_34.pdf.
- ↑ Rossi A (2013) A new species of the genus Buthus Leach, 1815 from Egypt (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali “Enrico Caffi”, Bergamo 26: 187–194. http://www.museoscienzebergamo.it/web/images/stories/museo/Rivista_museo/26_volume/Rossi_2013_new_Buthus_from_Egypt.pdf (October 9, 2013).
- ↑ Vachon M (1966) Liste des scorpions connus en Egypte, Arabie, Israeli, Liban, Syrie, Jordanie, Turquie, Irak, Iran. Toxicon 4: 209–218.
- ↑ Bodenheimer F (1937) Prodromus Faunae Palestinae. Essai sur les éléments zoogéographiques et historiques du sud-ouest du sous-règne paléarctique. Mémoires p. Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, Le Caire, 286 pp.
