Buthus awashensis KovařÍk, 2011

Kovařík, František, Šťáhlavský, František & Elmi, Hassan Sh Abdirahman, 2020, Scorpions of the Horn of Africa (Arachnida Scorpiones) Part XXIII Buthus (Buthidae), with description of two new species, Euscorpius 307, pp. 1-32 : 3

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4648379

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Buthus awashensis KovařÍk, 2011
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Buthus awashensis KovařÍk, 2011 View in CoL

( Figures 1–4 View Figures 1–4 , 176–177, 186 View Figures 176–190 , 191, 195–197 View Figures 195–209 , 210, Table 3 View Table 3 )

Buthus awashensis KovařÍk, 2011: 1–6 View in CoL , figs. 5–17, 23; Sousa et al., 2017: 37.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Ethiopia, Awash   GoogleMaps , Metahara env., 08°54'N 39°54 'E, 960-1050 m. a. s. l.; FKCP.

TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Ethiopia, Awash, Metahara env. , 08°54'N 39°54'E, 960-1050 m a. s. l., XI.2010, 2♂ (holotype GoogleMaps and paratype), leg. T. Mazuch and P. NovÁk, FKCP, GoogleMaps 19.-22. VII.2011, 31♂ (paratypes) 28♀ (allotype and paratypes) 25 juveniles (paratypes), FKCP, GoogleMaps 1♂ 1♀ (paratypes), AZMM; GoogleMaps 1♀ im.2juvs. (paratypes), BMNH, GoogleMaps 1♀ 1juv. (paratypes), CASC; GoogleMaps 1♀ 1juv. (paratypes), HNHM, GoogleMaps 1♀ im. 1juv. (paratypes), MRAC GoogleMaps , 1♂ 1♀ 1♂ im. 1juv. (paratypes), NHMB, GoogleMaps 1♀ im. 1juv. (paratypes), RMNH, GoogleMaps 1♂ 1♀ (paratypes), RTOC, GoogleMaps 1♀ im. 1juv. (paratypes), ZMHB, GoogleMaps 1♀ 1juv. (paratypes), ZMUH, leg. F. KovařÍk; GoogleMaps Dire Dawa, 09°34.647'N 41°50.33'E, 1249 m a. s. l., XI.2010, 1♂ (paratype), leg. T. Mazuch and P. NovÁk, FKCP. GoogleMaps

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED ( FKCP). Ethiopia, 13°43'10"N 39°55'34"E, 879 m a. s. l. (Locality No. 12EI), GoogleMaps 18.XI.2012, 1♂ 1♀, leg. F. KovařÍk; GoogleMaps 11°37'02"N 40°08'34"E, 819 m a. s. l. (Locality No. 12EKA), 20.XI.2012, 1♀ 1juv., leg. F. KovařÍk; GoogleMaps 11°43'22"N 40°56'52"E, 457 m a. s. l. (Locality No. 12EMA), 20.XI.2012, 1juv., leg. F. KovařÍk (UV detection); GoogleMaps 11°43'30"N 40°58'45"E, 404 m a. s. l. (Locality No. 12EM), 20.XI.2012, 3juvs., leg. F. KovařÍk (UV detection); GoogleMaps Gewane , 10°09'38"N 40°39'45"E, 631 m a. s. l. (Locality No. 12EO), 23.XI.2012, 5♂ 8♀ 41juvs., leg. F. KovařÍk, (UV detection); GoogleMaps 09°08'10.4"N 40°09'45.5"E, 835 m a. s. l. (Locality No. 12ER), 24.XI.2012, 1♀, leg. F. KovařÍk; GoogleMaps Awash , 09°00'34.5"N 40°17'56.5"E, 1012 m. a. s. l. (Locality No. 12EW), 25.XI.2012, 1♀, leg. F. KovařÍk; GoogleMaps Awash, Metahara env., 08°54'N 39°54'E, 960-1050 m a. s. l. (Locality No. 12EX), 25.XI.2012, 1♂ 1♀ 3juvs. (290), topotypes, leg. F. KovařÍk; GoogleMaps Afar State, 09°08'10.4"N 40°09'45.5"E, 835 m a. s. l. (Locality No. 14ET = 12ER), 26.-27.XI.2014, 2♂ 5juvs., leg. F. KovařÍk; GoogleMaps Afar State, Shewa Province , 20km N Awash, 09°11'52"N 40°08'04"E, 788 m a. s. l., 2. VI.2015, 4♂ 3♀ 15juvs., leg. Pavel Kučera, GoogleMaps 27.-30.XI.2014, 1♀ 4juvs., leg. F. KovařÍk; GoogleMaps Afar State, Shewa Province , 10km N Metahara, 08°57'01"N 39°50'30"E, 980 m a. s. l., 5. VI.2015, 1♀, leg. Pavel Kučera. GoogleMaps

DIAGNOSIS. Total length 45–62 mm. Mesosoma and carapace dark (grey to black) with orange spots and median black strip. Base color of metasoma, pedipalps ad legs yellow or yellowish red with dark spots, reticulations and dark carinae; telson yellow; chelicerae pale yellow, reticulated only in anterior part. Pedipalp movable fingers bear 11–12 rows of granules, obviously with 12 outer and inner denticles and fixed finger with 11 outer and inner denticles. Sexual dimorphism minor; chela of pedipalp narrow in both sexes, its length to width ratio 3.5–4.3 in females and 4.1– 4.8 in males. Telson bulbous, with aculeus shorter than vesicle. Pectinal teeth number 23–28 in females and 30–35 in males.

HNHM

Hungarian Natural History Museum (Termeszettudomanyi Muzeum)

MRAC

Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale

NHMB

Natural History Museum Bucharest

RMNH

National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis

ZMUH

Zoological Museum, University of Hanoi

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Scorpiones

Family

Buthidae

Genus

Buthus

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Buthus awashensis KovařÍk, 2011

Kovařík, František, Šťáhlavský, František & Elmi, Hassan Sh Abdirahman 2020
2020
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Buthus awashensis KovařÍk, 2011: 1–6

SOUSA P., M. A. ARNEDO & D. J. HARRIS 2017: 37
KOVARIK, F. 2011: 6
2011
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