Buthus awashensis Kovarik , 2011

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 : 24

6. Buthus awashensis Kovarik, 2011

Buthus awashensis : Kovařík 2011: 1-3, 5-8, fig. 5-16.

Buthus occitanus (MIS): Kovařík and Whitman 2005 (part): 106.

Type material.

1 M holotype (FKCP), Metahara (approx. 8.900°, 39.900°), Oromia, Ethiopia. Paratypes: 34 M, 34 F, 36 juv. (FKCP), all from the same locality; 1 M (FKCP), Dire Dawa, Ethiopia.

Distribution.

know only from two Ethiopian localities, more than 200 km apart.

Remarks.

The pedipalp chela length-to-width ratio given by the author for the type material suggest that some animals exhibit sexual dimorphism while others do not. If this is true, the utility of this ratio as a diagnostic character in Buthus would be compromised. Alternatively, it may be due simply to the use of immature specimens.