Neobuthus cloudsleythompsoni Lourenço, 2001

Kovařík, František, Lowe, Graeme, Awale, Ahmed Ibrahim, Elmi, Hassan Sh Abdirahman & Abdi, Ali, 2018, Scorpions of the Horn of Africa (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Part XVII. Revision of Neobuthus, with description of seven new species from Ethiopia, Kenya and Somaliland (Buthidae), Euscorpius 271, pp. 1-82 : 17

Neobuthus cloudsleythompsoni Lourenço, 2001

( Figs. 406, 438, Table 5)

Neobuthus cloudsleythompsoni Lourenço, 2001: 179– 182 , figs. 15–21; Kovařík, 2003: 137–138; Fet et al., 2005: 12; Lourenço, 2005: 28; Kovařík & Lowe, 2012: 16; Lowe & Kovařík, 2016: 4–14, figs. 7–42, 94, 96, 148–150, 157, 161.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Ethiopia, lower valley of the Omo River , MNHN.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Ethiopia, Southern Nationalities and Peoples Region Federal State ( SNNPR), "lower valley of the Omo river", Chew Bahr , 04°50'38.5"N 36°44'11.4"E, 625 m a.s.l. (Locality No. 13 EW), 5.– 6.VII.2013, 43♂ 6♀8♀ ims., leg. F. Kovařík , V. Socha, V. Trailin ( UV detection), FKCP, GLPC .

DIAGNOSIS. Total length 18.5–19 mm (males), 23–25 mm (females); carapace with area between anterior median carinae yellow; tergites with 3 dark stripes, median stripe flanked on either side by broad, continuous longitudinal yellow bands; pedipalp relatively stout, males with femur L/ W 2.05 –2.38; patella L/ W 2.31 –2.57, chela L/ W 4.40 –5.50; chela movable finger with 4–6 subrows of primary denticles, 3–4 external accessory denticles flanking proximal end of each subrow; trichobothrium d 2 of pedipalp femur usually absent, d 2 of pedipalp patella present; dorsoexternal and ventroexternal carinae on pedipalp patella in female absent; posterior margins of tergites bare or with a pair of macrosetae; pedipalps, legs, metasoma and telson with very short, stout macrosetae in males, long, fine setae in females; males with coxae and sternites III–VI densely, finely granular, sternite VII densely, finely granular with 4 granulated carinae; females with sternites III–VI smooth, sternite VII sparsely shagreened with 4 weak carinae, median carinae smooth or weakly granulated; metasoma I–III with median lateral carinae present in both sexes; lateral surface of metasoma V in males densely granulated, with granules close but separated; soles of telotarsi with sparse setation, leg III of adults with 13–20 ventral macrosetae on telotarsus; pectine teeth: 15–19 (males), 12–15 (females).