Neobuthus

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Neobuthus
Neobuthus-erigavoensis-F.jpg
Neobuthus erigavoensis
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Scorpiones
Family: Buthidae
Genus: Neobuthus
Hirst, 1911
Type species

Hirst, 1911

Neobuthus is a genus of scorpion of the family Buthidae. It is distributed across the Horn of Africa; in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somaliland, Kenya and Djibouti.[1]

Taxonomy[]

First described by Hirst in 1911, the genus was redefined in 2012 in reviews by Kovařík and Lowe. With its difference from the genus settled, it remained a poorly understood taxon due to lack of materials, with several isolated specimens acquired in 2010–2011 provisionally categorized as .[1] Further expeditions to Somaliland, Kenya and Djibouti carried out in the following years allowed for the scope of the genus to be studied with more depth, with seven new species being confirmed in 2018.[1] , having a poor original description and still unexamined female specimen, is still unclear as an independent species.[1]

Species[]

  • Neobuthus amoudensis Kovařík & Lowe, 2018
  • Kovařík & Lowe, 2012
  • Hirst, 1911
  • Lourenço, 2001
  • Neobuthus erigavoensis Kovařík & Lowe, 2018
  • Kovařík & Lowe, 2016
  • Neobuthus factorio Kovařík & Lowe, 2018
  • Kraepelin, 1898
  • Kovařík & Lowe, 2018
  • Kovařík, 2019
  • Kovařík & Lowe, 2018
  • Lowe & Kovařík, 2016
  • Kovařík & Lowe, 2018
  • Kovařík & Lowe, 2018
  • Kovařík, 2019
  • Lourenço, 2005

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Kovařík, František; Lowe, Graeme; Awale, Ahmed Ibrahim; Elmi, Hassan Sh Abdirahman; Hurre, Ali Abdi (12 December 2018). Fet, Victor (ed.). "Scorpions of the Horn of Africa (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Part XVII. Revision of Neobuthus, with Description of Seven New Species from Ethiopia, Kenya and Somaliland (Buthidae)" (PDF). Euscorpius. 271.

External links[]

  • Media related to Neobuthus at Wikimedia Commons


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