Androctonus gonneti

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

Androctonus gonneti Vachon, 1948.

Type locality: Morocco, West of Djebel Bani, Oued Akka.

Typus: Holotype Male ♂, MNHN-208 .

Androctonus crassicauda gonneti Vachon, 1948: 305-308, Figs. 170-174. (Original combination); (many other citations, see Fet & Lowe, 2000: 73)
Androctonus gonneti (Vachon, 1948); Lourenço, 2005: 150, Figs. 7-9; Lourenço, Ythier & Leguin 2009: 1, Figs. 12–15, Table 1, Map. [See also Coelho et al., 2014]

Note: Fet & Lowe, 2000 (p.73) comment that "Levy & Amitai, 1980 suggested that this form does not belong to A. crassicauda (Olivier)."

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., Ythier, E. & Leguin, E.-A. 2009. A new species of Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828 from Morocco (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Euscorpius 89: 1–8. PDF Reference page.
Vachon, M. 1948. Études sur les Scorpions. III (suite). Déscription des Scorpions du Nord de l'Afrique. Archives de l'Institut Pasteur d'Algérie 26(4): 441–481. Reference page.

Coelho, P., Sousa, P., Harris, D.J., & van der Meijden, A. 2014. Deep intraspecific divergences in the medically relevant fat-tailed scorpions (Androctonus, Scorpiones). Acta Tropica 134: 43–51. DOI: 10.1016/J.ACTATROPICA.2014.02.002 Reference page.
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.