Buthus intermedius (Ehrenberg in Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1829)

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 : 31

25. Buthus intermedius (Ehrenberg in Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1829)

Androctonus (Leirus) tunetanus intermedius: Ehrenberg in Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1829: 354; Braunwalder and Fet 1998: 33-34.

Androctonus (Leiurus) tunetanus intumescens (MIS): Kovařík 2006: 10.

Androctonus (Liurus) tunetanus intermedius: Ehrenberg in Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1831: (pages not numbered).

Androctonus occitanus intermedius: Gervais 1844a: 42.

Buthus (Buthus) occitanus intermedius: Birula 1917a: 228.

Buthus occitanus intermedius: Peréz 1974: 23.

Buthus intermedius (Ehrenberg): Lourenço 2008: 46-47.

Type material.

1 F (in bad conditions) (ZMB N° 146), Al Luhayyah (as Lohaie), Yemen.

Distribution.

Known only from the type locality.

Remarks.

Fet and Lowe (2000) considered the locality as probably wrong since at that time no other Buthus had been collected again in Yemen. However, Lourenço's (2008) Buthus yemenensis revalidated Ehrenberg species’ by providing concrete proof for the existence of Buthus species in this country. Doubst about B. intermedius type locality were the only evidence given by Kovařík (2006) for its synonimization with Buthus intumescens (Ehrenberg in Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1829).