Buthus rochati Lourenco , 2003

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 : 36

47. Buthus rochati Lourenco, 2003

Buthus rochati : Lourenço 2003: 893-896, fig. 47-51; Aboumaâd et al. 2014: 6.

Buthus occitanus mardochei panousei : Vachon 1949c: 373-376, fig. 426-432; Vachon 1952a: 301-304, fig. 426-432; Le Corroller 1967: 63; Pérez 1974: 23; Touloun 2012: 57.

Type material.

1 M holotype (MHNG), Tafnidilt Region (as Tafnidit) (approx. 28.56°, -11.03°), Guelmim Region, Morocco. Paratypes: 1 M, 1 F (MHNG); same locality; 6 F (MHNG), west of Tafnidilt Region, Draa River valley; 3 M, 1 F (MHNG), unknown locality.

Distribution.

known distribution confined to the Tafnidilt region of Morocco.

Remarks.

Lourenço (2003) does not mention the most remarkable diagnostic character given by Vachon (1952a), the interrupted dorso-median keel of the pedipalp patella. However Lourenço's Figure 49 illustrates this character, as it is a copy of Vachon's original drawings, and thus we consider it as part of the species diagnose and the most reliable diagnostic character for B. rochati . Vachon (1949) infrasubspecific name is not available as is explained above.