Buthus sp.

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 : 37

53. Buthus sp.

Buthus albengai (MIS): Habel et al. 2012: 3-4.

Buthus europaeus (MIS): Simon 1899: 85; Simon 1910 (part): 68-70, fig. 5, 8.

Buthus malhommei (MIS): Habel et al. 2012: 3-4.

Buthus occitanus (MIS): Karsch 1881b: 8 (Libya); Pocock 1899: 834 (Africa); Kraepelin 1901 a (part): 266; Werner 1902 (part): 598; Chaignon 1904: 83-84 (Tunisia); Tullgren 1909: 2-3 (Egypt); Borelli 1924 (Libya): 4; King 1925: 81 (Sudan); Gough and Hirs 1927: 5, fig. 9 (Egypt); Pallary 1934: 98-99; Werner 1934a: 269, fig. 330 (Morocco); Pallary 1938: 281-282; Sergent 1938: 519-520, pl. 49; Monard 1939: 82-83 (Guinea-Bissau); Moriggi 1941: 84; Sergent 1941a: 355, fig. 1E, 2.7, pl. 35, fig. 7; Sergent 1941b: 447, plate 37; Vachon 1941: 52; Frade 1947: 268 (Guinea-Bissau); Vachon 1952a (part): 262-271, fig. 331-344, 348, 372-380, 591, 641, 657, 663, 679, 687, 696; Vachon 1953: 1021-1024, fig. 12 (Mauritania); Malhomme 1954: 28 (Morocco); Belfield 1956: 44; Kinzelbach 1975: 14, fig. 1; Lamoral and Reynders 1975: 505 (Africa); Levy and Amitai 1980 (part): 15-16; Kinzelbach 1984: 100 (Asia); Kinzelbach 1985: map II (Asia); El-Hennawy 1987: 17 (Egypt); Amr et al. 1988: 374 (Jordan); Michalis and Dolkeras 1989: 265-266 (Greece); El-Hennawy 1992: 98, 101, 119-120 (Arabia); Kovařík 1992a (part): 183; Kovařík 1992b: 90 (Iraq); Amr and EI-Oran 1994: 181 (Jordan); Kovařík 1997: 179 (Maghreb); Fet and Lowe 2000 (part): 92-94; Kovařík 2002: 5; Lourenço 2003: 884 (Morocco) Soleglad and Fet 2003: 7 (Morocco); Kaltsas et al. 2008: 215-216 (Libya); Sadine et al. 2012: 33; El-Hennawy 2013: 260; Aboumaâd et al. 2014: 5.

Buthus occitanus occitanus (MIS): Pocock 1895: 299 (Egypt); Vachon 1952a (part): 262-271, fig. 331-344, 372-379, 400, 554; Levy and Amitai 1980: 16 (Africa); Kovařík 1995: 20 (Morocco); Kovařík 1997: 179 (Ghana); Gantenbein et al. 1998 a: 51, Fet and Lowe 2000 (part): 94-95; Gantenbein and Largiadèr 2003 (part): 120, 122.

Buthus occitanus occitanus, "Afrique occidentale française”: Vachon 1952a: 270.

Buthus occitanus occitanus, "Cote Occidentale du Maroc": Vachon 1952a: 268-269, fig. 373-378.

Scorpio occitanus : Dufour 1856 (part): 570.

not Buthus : Vachon 1955: 372 (El Fâcher, Djebel Meidob, Darfur, Sudan) (Vachon said that this material was close to but not part of the genus Buthus ).

Note.

We futher propose to transfer a species from the genus Buthus to the genus Androctonus .