Buthus albengai 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 : 24

2. Buthus albengai Lourenco, 2003

Buthus albengai : Lourenço 2003: 902-904, fig. 70-74; Lourenço and Geniez 2005: 5; Aboumaâd et al. 2014: 6; Touloun et al. 2014: 76; Lourenço 2016b: fig. 3.

Type material.

1 F holotype (MHNG), Ito Plateau (approx. 33.51°, -5.3°), Ifrane, Morocco. Paratypes: 3 F, same locality; 2 juv., Ifrane (Cedars woods); 1 M, 1 F juv., region north of Kenifra (all in MHNG).

Distribution.

known from an area in Morocco that extends from ifrane to Kenifra.

Remarks.

It is one of the largest known Buthus species. Records by Habel et al. (2012) south of the High-Atlas are most likely misidentifications.