Buthus barcaeus Birula, 1909

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 : 25

7. Buthus barcaeus Birula, 1909

Buthus occitanus barcaeus: Birula 1909: 508-511. fig. A, C; Borelli 1914a: 155-156; Borelli 1924: 5-7; Borelli 1928: 351; Caporiacco 1932: 395; Borelli 1934: 169; Caporiacco 1937: 345; Pérez 1974: 23; Levy and Amitai 1980: 16; El-Hennawy 1992: 98, 120; Kovařík 1998: 106; Fet and Lowe 2000: 95; Kovařík 2002: 5.

Buthus (Buthus) occitanus barcaeus: Birula 1910: 156; Birula 1917a: 223.

Buthus barcaeus : Kovařík 2006: 3, fig. 6; Kaltsas et al. 2008: 215; Lourenço and Cloudsley-Thompson 2012: 15; Lourenço and Simon 2012: 11; Rossi, Tropea and Yağmur 2013: 3-5, 7.

Type material.

4 M, 1 F juv., syntypes (ZIN), Barca (approx. 32.48°, 20.83°), 5 km E from Benghazi (Cyrenaica), Libya.

Distribution.

know from several localities along the Mediterranean coast of Libya.

Remarks.

The specimens present in the MNHN (F n° 4896), captured in Barca and identified by Vachon in 1974, have no intermediary keel on the fourth metasomal segment, which casts doubts about the use of the character in the diagnosis of B. barcaeus .