Buthus israelis Shulov & Amitai, 1959

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 : 32-33

27. Buthus israelis Shulov & Amitai, 1959

Buthus occitanus mardochei israelis: Shulov and Amitai 1959: 219-225, fig. 1-3.

Buthus occitanus israelis: Pérez 1974: 23; Vachon and Kinzelbach 1987: 101; Fet and Lowe 2000: 95; Skutelsky 1995: 46; Skutelsky 1996: 50

Buthus occitanus israelis (Shulov & Amitai, 1959): Levy and Amitai 1980: 16-21, fig. 25-29; EI-Hennawy 1992: 101, 120; Kovařík 2006: 10; Lourenço, Yağmur and Duhem 2010: 96.

Buthus intumescens (MIS): Kovařík 2006 (part): 10-11.

Buthus israelis : Lourenço, Yağmur and Duhem 2010: 96-97; Yağmur, Koç and Lourenço 2011: 29.

Buthus israelis (Shulov & Amitai, 1959): Rossi 2013: 191-192; Rossi, Tropea and Yağmur 2013: 2-3, 6-7.

Buthus occitanus mardochei israelis: Vachon 1966: 211; Kovařík 2006: 10; Lourenço, Yağmur and Duhem 2010: 95.

Buthus occitanus typicus: Bodenheimer 1937: 235.

Type material.

holotype lost (sex unknown), Mash’abbe Sade (as Mashavei Sadé) (approx. 31°, 34.78°), Negev desert, Israel.

Distribution.

This species has been recorded in Egypt (the Sinai Peninsula) and Israel. Notwithstanding, Kovařík (2006) considered this species to be a junior synonym of B. intumescens .

Remarks.

Levy and Amitai (1980) did not designate any neotype when they re-described the species. In contrast to the several infrasubspecific taxa described by Vachon that are unavailable according to the ICZN, B. o. israelis is an available name according to the ICZN article 45.6.4.1 ("a name that is infrasubspecific under Article 45.6.4 is nevertheless deemed to be subspecific from its original publication if, before 1985, it was either adopted as the valid name of a species or subspecies or was treated as a senior homonym"), which is the present case as Levy and Amitai redescribed this taxon before 1985, and thus articles 45.5 and 45.5.1 do not apply. Several authors wrongly report the original authors of the species in parenthesis. The use of parenthesis is only to be made when a species is changed from one genus to another (ICZN article 51.3), which is clearly not the case with B. israelis .