Buthus egyptiensis Lourenco , 2012

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 : 28

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.686.12206

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:976E23A1-CFC7-4CB3-8170-5B59452825A6

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/508CF1F4-3CC9-BAAB-9CE5-02D16AE49B67

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scientific name

Buthus egyptiensis Lourenco , 2012
status

 

18. Buthus egyptiensis Lourenco, 2012 View in CoL

Buthus egyptiensis : Lourenço and Cloudsley-Thompson 2012: 12-16, fig. 1-7; Lourenço and Simon 2012: 12; Rossi 2013: 191-192; Rossi, Tropea and Yağmur 2013: 4, 7.

Type material.

1 F holotype (ZMH N° A20/12), Siwa (approx. 29.17°, 25.46°), Egypt.

Distribution.

known only from the type locality.

Remarks.

One of the four known "inland island" species of Buthus that have been found within the Sahara Desert, although in this case from an Oasis. It is also one of the largest known Buthus species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Scorpiones

Family

Buthidae

Genus

Buthus