Buthus mardochei Simon, 1878

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 : 33-34

35. Buthus mardochei Simon, 1878

Buthus mardoche (IOS): Simon 1878: 159-160; Simon 1879: 100; Kraepelin 1891: 199; Birula, 1896: 244

Buthus (Buthus) mardoche (IOS): Birula 1910: 145-146; Birula 1917a: 223 ("dubious species"); Werner 1932: 300-305.

Buthus occitanus mardochei: Vachon 1949c (part): 358-363, fig. 400-408; Vachon 1952a (part): 286-295, fig. 401-408; Malhomme 1954: 28-29; Pérez 1974: 22; Levy and Amitai 1980: 16; El-Hennawy 1992: 98, 120; Kovařík 1995: 20; Gantenbein et al. 1998 a: 51; Gantenbein et al. 1998 b: 33-39; Kovařík 1998: 106; Fet and Lowe 2000: 96; Touloun et al. 2001: 2; Gantenbein and Largiadèr 2003 (part): 120, 122.

Buthus occitanus mardochei mardochei: Le Corroller, 1967. 63; Touloun 2012: 39, 104, 108, fig.5D.

Buthus mardochei : Lourenço 2003: 889, fig. 39; Stockmann and Ythier 2010: 364-365; Aboumaâd et al. 2014: 5.

Type material.

1 F (MNHN N° RS1771, damaged), southern Morocco.

Distribution.

this species appears to have a distribution parallel to that of B. atlantis , between Essaouira and Agadir, but is found further inland and away from the Atlantic coast.

Remarks.

Vachon (1949d: 358) corrected what he considered Simon's incorrect original spelling of " mardoche " to " mardochei ", since the form was named as a patronym after its collector, Rabbi Mardoché. Nevertheless, it is our understanding that this was an unjustified emendation, because the ICZN article 31.1 admit the use of a noun in apposition as was the case with " mardoche ", however the ICZN article 33.2.3.1 admits the prevalence of this emendation as it continues to be attributed to "the original author and date" and is "in prevailing usage" and as such we refrain from any change to the name. Vachon (1949, 1952) also established that the species occurs roughly between Essaouira and Agadir, but not near the coast where it is replaced by B. atlantis .