Buthus elhennawyi Lourenco , 2005

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 : 28

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.686.12206
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:976E23A1-CFC7-4CB3-8170-5B59452825A6
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scientific name	Buthus elhennawyi Lourenco , 2005
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Treatment

19. Buthus elhennawyi Lourenco, 2005 View in CoL

Buthus elhennawyi : Lourenço 2005b: 246-249, fig. 1-7; Lourenço and Leguin 2012: 8.

Type material.

1 M holotype (ZMH N° A42/05), Fété-Olé (as Félé-Olé) (16.233°, -15.099°), Ferlo, Senegal. Paratype: 1 M (MNHN N° RS8637), Rosi (as Rossi), Niger.

Distribution.

this species is known from Niger and Senegal, from a single locality in each country, which are almost 2,000 Km apart.

Remarks.

We used the location of Fété-Olé given in Vincke et al. (2010), a locality that has been part of long term ecological studies, to map this locality, instead of the original spelling “Félé-Olé”.