Androctonus aeneas

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Neoscorpionina

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Scorpiones Subordo: Neoscorpionina

Familia: Buthidae
Genus: Androctonus
Species: Androctonus aeneas

Name

Androctonus aeneas Koch, 1839.

Type locality: Algeria, Ain El Tuk, Onan Region, (Originally: "North Africa" but also states Onan).

Typus: [Lost]. Neotype, Male ♂, MNHN-RS-9024, legit F. Petter, 15.VII.1952, allocated in Lourenço, Rossi & Sadine, 2015.

Synonymy

• Androctonus aeneas C.L. Koch, 1839: 3-6, Pl. CLXXXI, fig. 432 (Original combination); Lourenço Rossi & Sadine, 2015: 20, Figs. 6-13. (As valid, contra earlier Lourenço, 2005: 147, where a junior synonym of Androctonus bicolor Eherenberg, 1828).
• Androctonus bicolor aeneas C.L. Koch, 1839
• Buthus aeneas (C.L. Koch, 1839)
• Buthus bicolor aeneas (C.L. Koch, 1839)
• Androctonus turieli Teruel & Kovařík, 2014: 8, Figs. 19–34, 36; Table 2; Junior subjective synonym of Androctonus aeneas in Lourenço, Rossi & Sadine, 2015: 20.
  • Type locality: Tunisia, near Sfax [= Safaqis]
    • Typus: Holotype, coll. František Kovařík. Female ♀. 1980

References

Primary references

• Teruel, R. & Kovařík, F. 2014. Redescription of Androctonus bicolor Ehrenberg, 1828, and description of Androctonus turieli sp. n. from Tunisia (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Euscorpius, (186) Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Lourenço, W.R. 2005. Nouvelles considerations taxonomiques sur les espèces du genre Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828 et description de deux nouvelles espèces (Scorpione, Buthidae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 112(1): 145–171. BHL DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.80291 Reference page. 
• Lourenço, W.R. Rossi A. & Sadine, S.E. 2015. New data on the genus Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Scorpiones, Buthidae), with the description of a new species from Ethiopia. Arachnida – Rivista Aracnologica Italiana 1(5): 11–29. Reference page. 

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