Buthus berberensis Pocock, 1900

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 : 25

8. Buthus berberensis Pocock, 1900

= Buthus occitanus zeylensis Pocock 1900b: 56-57 (synonymized by Levy and Amitai 1980: 16). 1 F holotype (NHMUK), Zeyla (northwestern Somaliland), Somalia.

Buthus occitanus berberensis: Birula 1903: 106-107; Birula 1909: 510; Birula 1910: 118; Kraepelin 1903: 558; Borelli 1904:·2-3; Giltay 1929: 196; Moriggi 1941: 84; Lamoral and Reynders 1975: 505; Levy and Amitai 1980: 16; EI-Hennawy: 1992: 98, 120; Kovařík 1998: 106; Fet and Lowe 2000: 95; Kovařík 2003 (part): 138.

Buthus occitanus zeylensis: Kraepelin 1903: 558-559; Borelli 1919: 363; Borelli 1931: 218; Caporiacco 1936: 137; Moriggi 1941: 84; Lamoral and Reynders 1975: 505-506; EI-Hennawy 1992: 98, 121-122; Kovařík 1998: 106.

Buthus berberensis : Lourenço 2008: 46; Kovařík 2011: 4-6.

Buthus (Buthus) occitanus berberensis: Birula 1917a: 123.

Type material.

1 M holotype (NHMUK), Somaliland, Somalia.

Distribution.

know from Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia, although Birula (1903) recorded toponyms that are old and difficult to map.

Remarks.

Lourenço (2008) stated that B. o. zeylensis might be a distinct species from B. berberensis , but that further material was required to confirm this possibility. Kovařík (2011) considered B. o. zeylensis a colour morph of B. berberensis present in juveniles and some males.