Androctonus barbouri

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 barbouri

Name

Androctonus barbouri Werner 1932.

Type locality: Morocco, Agadir

Typus: Typus: Holotype Male ♂, [Unknown]

Synonymy

Buthus barbouri Werner 1932: 300, fig. 141; Vachon 1949: 287–288, fig. 371; Vachon 1952: 261–262; Perez 1974: 22; El-Hennawy 1992: 98, 119; Kovařík 1995: 20; Kovařík 1998: 106; Fet & Lowe 2000: 92.
Androctonus barbouri (Werner, 1932); Sousa, Arnedo & Harris 2017: 63. Comb. nov.

Note: Fet & Lowe 2000: 92. say that Vachon (1949, 1952) reproduced Werner's description noticing that it is insufficient and may refer either to Buthus maroccanus Birola or Androctonus mauritanicus (Pocock). Sousa, Arnedo & Harris 2017: 63 comment that "The relationship between A. barbouri and A. mauritanicus bourdoni Vachon, 1948, a subspecies of A. mauritanicus (Pocock, 1902), another black Androctonus species that also occurs in the Sous River valley, should be investigated." That latter taxon was revised as a valid species Androctonus bourdoni Vachon, 1948 in Ythier & Lourenço, 2022: 242 without any mention of affinities with Werner's older Buthus barbouri Werner 1932, which is only presented in the revised combination Androctonus barbouri (Werner, 1932) in a checklist.

References

Primary references

Sousa, P., Arnedo, M. & Harris, D.J. 2017. Updated catalogue and taxonomic notes on the Old-World scorpion genus Buthus Leach, 1815 (Scorpiones, Buthidae). ZooKeys 686: 15—84. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.686.12206 Reference page.
Werner, F. 1932. Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Forschungsreise nach Marokko. VI. Skorpione. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwis- senschaftliche Klasse 141: 285–306. Zobodat Reference page.

Additional references

Fet, V.Y. & Lowe, G. 2000. Family Buthidae C.L Koch, 1837. Pp. 54–286 in Fet, V., Sissom, W.D., Lowe, G. & Braunwalder, M.E. (Editors). Catalog of the Scorpions of the World (1758–1998). The New York Entomological Society, New York. 690 pp. Reference page.

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