Buthus hassanini Lourenco , Duhem & Cloudsley-Thompson, 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 : 29-30

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/F763EE75-2083-7C7B-8DF9-2284A42ADA0B

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scientific name

Buthus hassanini Lourenco , Duhem & Cloudsley-Thompson, 2012
status

 

23. Buthus hassanini Lourenco, Duhem & Cloudsley-Thompson, 2012 View in CoL

Buthus hassanini : Lourenço et al. 2012: 319-321, 323, fig. 35-42.

Type material.

1 F (MNHN N° RS8927), Biti Tehëc (approx. 17.187°, 22.288°), Ennedi Plateau, Chad.

Distribution.

known only from the type locality.

Remarks.

Another of the four known "inland island" species of Buthus that have been found in a Mountainous region in the heart of the Sahara Desert. The type locality was pinpointed following the map provided by the authors (fig. 90).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Scorpiones

Family

Buthidae

Genus

Buthus