Buthus tunetanus (Herbst, 1800)

Kovařík, František, 2006, Review of Tunisian species of the genus Buthus with descriptions of two new species and a discussion of Ehrenberg s types (Scorpiones: Buthidae), Euscorpius 34 (34), pp. 1-16 : 8-10

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scientific name	Buthus tunetanus (Herbst, 1800)
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Buthus tunetanus (Herbst, 1800) View in CoL

( Figs. 12–19 View Figure 12 View Figure 13 View Figure 14 View Figure 15 View Figure 16 View Figure 17 View Figure 18 View Figure 19 , Table 1)

Scorpio tunetanus Herbst, 1800: 68 .

Androctonus (Leiurus) tunetanus: Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1828: 4 ; Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1829: 354.

Androctonus (Leiurus) tunetanus genuinus: Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1831 (pages unnumbered).

Androctonus tunetanus: C. L. Koch, 1845: 15 , fig. 968; C. L. Koch, 1850: 90; C. Koch, 1873: 106.

Buthus occitanus tunetanus: Birula, 1903: 107 View in CoL ; Vachon, 1949: 344; Vachon, 1952: 272; Levy & Amitai, 1980: 21; Kovařík, 1998: 106; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 97; Lourenço, 2002: 110; Babay & Nouira, 2003: 54.

Buthus tunetanus: Lourenço, 2003: 897 View in CoL .

Material examined: Tunisia, Gafsa Province, near Gafsa, 1964, 1♀ (collector unknown) ; Gafsa Province, 25 km SW Mezzouna, near Bou Hedma National Park , 23 April 2004 ( Fig. 12 View Figure 12 ), 2 juvs., leg. F. Kovařík ; Beja Province, Jebel Sabbah Mts., Bou Salem , 10 km NW Balta, 27 May 2005 and 2 June 2005 ( Figs. 13 View Figure 13 to 15), 4♂, 8♀, 3 immatures, 2 juvs. ( Figs. 16–19 View Figure 16 View Figure 17 View Figure 18 View Figure 19 ), leg. F. Kovařík.

Diagnosis: Total adult length 60–80 mm. Legs, metasoma, and pedipalps uniformly yellowish or reddish brown; mesosoma and carapace darker, with median and lateral yellowish-brown spots. Movable fingers of pedipalps bear 10 or 11 rows of granules with one internal and one external granule and three distal granules. Chela of pedipalp wide in both sexes, in males wider than in females. Pectines with 24-29 teeth in females and 29-35 in males. First metasomal segment with 10 carinae, second to fourth segments with eight carinae (lateral surface of second and third segments with row of granules that reaches midlength of segment but does not form a complete carina). Fifth metasomal segment bears five carinae. Ventrolateral carinae terminates in two lobates. Telson bulbous, aculeus shorter than vesicle.

Comments. The type of Buthus tunetanus (Herbst, 1800) is considered lost (Fet & Lowe, 2000: 97), but this species can be recognized by its size and chela wider in males than in females, a feature that has long been accepted as diagnostic (see fig. 381 in Vachon, 1952: 273).