Buthus maroccanus Birula, 1903

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 : 34

37. Buthus maroccanus Birula, 1903

= Prionurus tingitanus : Pallary 1928 a: 350-351, fig. 4 (synonymized by Vachon 1949b: 281). Syntype, sex unknown (MNHN), Rabat, Morocco (Vachon, 1949, 1952).

Buthus occitanus maroccanus: Birula 1903: 106.

Buthus europaeus (MIS): Hirst 1925 (part): 416.

Buthus (Buthus) occitanus maroccanus: Birula 1910: 145; Birula 1917a: 223.

Buthus occitanus maroccanus: Giltay 1929: 196; Werner 1929: 31-32.

Buthus maroccanus : Werner 1932: 299; Werner 1934b: 84; Vachon 1949b: 281-287, fig. 364-371; Vachon 1952a: 255-261, fig. 364-371; Foley 1951: 33; Bücherl 1964: 57; Pérez 1974: 22: l.evy and Amitai 1980: 15; El-Hennawy 1992: 98, 119; Kovařík 1995: 20; Kovařík 1998: 106; Fet and Lowe 2000: 92; Sousa et al. 2012: 68-69; Stockmann and Ythier 2010: 366-367; Aboumaâd et al. 2014: 6..

Buthus marocanus (ISS): Le Corroller 1967: 63.

Type material.

3 M, F, syntypes (ZIN), Morocco; 1 specimen syntype (ZIN), locality unknown ( Fet and Lowe 2000).

Distribution.

all known specimens have been captured in the Rabat Region (approx. 28.43°, -11.10°).

Remarks.

it remains the only known Buthus species with a uniformly darkened body.