Buthus tunetanus (Herbst, 1800)

Ythier, Eric & François, Alexandre, 2023, The scorpion fauna of the Oriental region in Morocco (Scorpiones: Buthidae, Scorpionidae) with description of three new species of the genus Scorpio Linnaeus, 1758., Faunitaxys 11 (3), pp. 1-15 : 8

Buthus tunetanus (Herbst, 1800)

Material examined (11 ex.).

- Morocco, Bouârfa , Tamlelt, 32.50613 lat. -2.6698 lon., ID 10526, 19/VI/2008 (S. Touil), ECWP ;

- Morocco, Bouârfa , Tamlelt, 32.51384 lat. -2.48154 lon., ID 10528, 10/VII/2008 (S. Touil), ECWP ;

- Morocco, Bouârfa , Tamlelt, 32.50613lat. -2.6698 lon., ID 10529, 29/V/2008 (S. Touil), ECWP ;

- Morocco, Bouârfa , Tamlelt, 32.31528 lat.-2.32572 lon., ID 10538, 28/VIII/2008 (S. Touil), ECWP ;

- Morocco, Bouârfa , Tamlelt, 32.53419lat. -2.50649 lon., ID 10542, 19/VI/2008 (S. Touil), ECWP ;

- Morocco, Bouârfa , Tamlelt, 32.48212 lat. -2.7282 lon., ID10546, 17/VII/2008 (S. Touil), ECWP ;

- Morocco, Bouârfa , Tamlelt, 32.25143 lat. -2.22581 lon., ID 10547, 16/VII/2008 (S. Touil), ECWP ;

- Morocco, Bouârfa , Tamlelt,32.51384 lat.-2.48154 lon., ID 10548, 03/VII/2008 (S. Touil), ECWP ;

- Morocco, Bouârfa , Tamlelt, 32.53385 lat. -2.5066 lon., ID12541, 03/VII/2008 (S. Touil), ECWP ;

- Morocco, Bouânane , Zelmou dam, 32.13496 lat. -2.8807 lon., ID 8482, 11/VI/2011 (A. François, C. Landsmann), ECWP ;

- Morocco, between Bouârfa and Figuig, 32.25457 lat. -1.71231 lon., ID 22918, 24/V/2015 (A. François, M. García-Paris, J. L. Ruiz), ECWP .

Distribution and remarks. – Buthus tunetanus islargely distributed in the high plateaus, the Saharan Atlas and Aures mountains and the northern edge of the Sahara Desert from Morocco to northern Libya (Vachon, 1952, Lourenço, 2003, 2017, Touloun et al., 2014, Dupré, 2017, El Hidan et al., 2017, Sousa et al., 2017, Touloun, 2019, Abidi et al., 2021). The northern edge of the Sahara Desert in Morocco (Tamlelt plain, which is connected to the Sahara Desert between the eastern High Atlas and the western Saharan Atlas) seems to be the western limit of its distribution ( Fig. 2 ).

Figures

Fig. 1-4. Topographic map of the Oriental region in Morocco and surroundings areas showing the collection sites of Androctonus, Buthus, Hottentotta and Scorpio species (symbols with white cross showing the type localities). 1. Androctonus. 2. Buthus. 3. Hottentotta. 4. Scorpio.