Buthus saharicus Saddine, Bissati & Lourenco , 2015

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 : 36

48. Buthus saharicus Saddine, Bissati & Lourenco, 2015

Buthus saharicus : Saddine et al. 2015: 47-49, fig. 6-8; Lourenço 2016b: fig. 4.

Type material.

1 F holotype (MNHN), Ghardaïa Region (approx. 32.300°, 3.833°), in Wadi bed, Algeria. Paratypes: 1 M (UGA), 1 F juv. (MNHN), same locality.

Distribution.

known only from the type locality.

Remarks.

Saddine et al. (2015) claimed that B. saharicus was the "first true deserticolous species found in Algeria", a bold claim given that B. tunetanus (sensu Vachon 1949, part) had already been recorded for Beni Abbés by Vachon (1949, 1952), also a desert location in central west Algeria, and albeit neither localities are Erg Desert areas, Beni Abbés is in the border of the Grand Erg Occidental.