Buthus draa Lourenco & Slimani, 2004

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 : 27

15. Buthus draa Lourenco & Slimani, 2004

Buthus draa : Lourenço and Slimani 2004: 166-169, fig. 1-7; Lourenço, Sun and Zhu 2009: p. 72, fig. 2-6; Stockmann and Ythier 2010: 362-363; Touloun and Boumezzough 2011b: 186; Habel et al. 2012: 2, 4; Sousa et al. 2012: 68-69; Pedroso et al. 2013: 300; Yang et al. 2013: 2; Aboumaâd et al. 2014: 6; El Hidan et al. 2016: 4.

Buthus occitanus tunetanus neeli (MIS): Touloun et al. 1999: 1-2.

Buthus tassili (MIS): Touloun 2012: 37, 40-41, fig.7.

Type material.

1 M holotype (UCAM), Taznakht (30.51853°, -7.02595°), Ouarzazate, Morocco. Paratypes: 1 M, 2 F (UCAM), 1 M, 1 F (ZMH), 2 M, 1 F (MNHN), all from the same locality; 1 M (ZMH), Aït Bassou; 2 F juv. (ZMH), Aït Ounzar Oulad Aissa; 1 M (ZMH), near Agdez; 1 M (ZMH), Oulad Hlal. The ZMH accession number for all paratypes is A7/03.

Distribution.

B. draa can be found in the upper part of the Draa River, probably at elevations below 1500 m a.s.l.

Remarks.

B. draa shares with B. tassili and B. nigrovesiculosus the presence of a darkened fifth metasoma segment and telson.