Buthus boumalenii Touloun & Boumezzough, 2011

Sousa, Pedro, Arnedo, Miquel A. & Harris, D. James, 2017, Updated catalogue and taxonomic notes on the Old-World scorpion genus Buthus Leach, 1815 (Scorpiones, Buthidae), ZooKeys 686, pp. 15-84 : 26

10. Buthus boumalenii Touloun & Boumezzough, 2011

Buthus boumalenii : Touloun and Boumezzough 2011a: 183-186, fig. 2-7; Pedroso et al. 2013: 300; Aboumaâd et al. 2014: 6; El Hidan et al. 2016: 4.

Type material.

1 F holotype (UCAM), Tineghir (approx. 31.366°, -5.905°), Boumalene, Morocco. Paratypes: 1 M (UCAM), 1 M, 1 F (MNHN, N° RS8891), all from the same locality.

Distribution.

known only from the Boumalne region of Morocco (El Hidan et al. 2016).

Remarks.

This species is the only known representative of a phylogenetic lineage present east of the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Because of its phylogenetic uniqueness, the conservation of this species should have top priority.