Butheolus thalassinus Simon 1882
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Butheolus thalassinus Simon, 1882
(Figs. 151–156, 163–178, 338, Tab. 6)
Butheolus thalassinus Simon, 1882: 248–249, pl. VIII, fig. 20;
Butheolus thalassinus: Simon, 1889: Simon, 1890: 122; Kraepelin, 1891: 75; Kraepelin, 1895: 5; Pocock, 1895: 295, 316; Laurie, 1896: 122; Kraepelin, 1899: 37; Kraepelin, 1903: 565; Birula, 1910: 171; Borelli, 1915: 461–462; Birula, 1917a: 215, 230; Birula, 1937: 101; Kästner, 1941: 231; Vachon, 1966: 210; Stahnke, 1972: 129; Sissom, 1994: 7–8, figs. 9–13; Kovařík, 1998b: 105; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 89; Kovařík, 2004: 4, 25; Fet, Soleglad & Lowe, 2005: 2; Lourenço, 2005: 27, fig. 33; Hendrixson, 2006: 56, 61; Acosta et al., 2008: 493; El-Hennawy, 2009: 121; El-Hennawy, 2014: 45; Kovařík & Lowe, 2012: 1–2, 4, 18–23, figs. 7–8, 75, 78, 81, 84, 87, 90, 99, 104; Lowe et al., 2014: 117.
Butheolus (Butheolus) thalassinus: Vachon, 1980: 255; El-Hennawy, 1992: 101, 114.
TYPE MATERIAL. Syntypes, Yemen, Aden, MCSN (not examined).
MATERIAL EXAMINED. Yemen: 2 ♀, Shaik Ottiman, 9.II.1895 (BMNH); 1 ♂ Ta'izz, 3800 ft a.s.l., 1 0. I.1951, leg. H. Hoogstraal, under rock on Euphorbia Aloe Hill (WDS).
DIAGNOSIS. A member of the genus Butheolus differentiated as follows: base color deep chocolate brown, with all metasomal segments and telson dark; pedipalps and legs yellow or brownish-yellow; carapace and tergites coarsely granulated; pedipalp patella with dorsomedian carina complete; pedipalp chela with strong dorsal secondary and external secondary carinae, moderate to strong dorsal marginal, digital, external, ventroexternal and ventrointernal carinae; ventral surface between ventromedian carinae of metasoma I with dense coarse and fine granulation; ventral and lateral intercarinal surfaces of metasoma II–V with moderately coarse granulation; metasoma and telson with sparse, short macrosetae; telson with large, broad subaculear tubercle, acute angle between posterior vesicle surface and aculeus base; pedipalp and metasoma stout; pedipalp femur L/W ♂ 2.42; pedipalp patella L/W ♂ 2.25; pedipalp chela L/W ♂ 4.08; metasoma I L/W ♂ 0.75; metasoma IV L/D ♂ 1.24, metasoma V L/D ♂ 1.68, telson L/D ♂ 2.01; pectine teeth ♂ 17–18, ♀ 14–16.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH , MCSN , WDS
- Event date
- 1895-02-09
- Verbatim event date
- 1895-02-09
- Scientific name authorship
- Simon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Scorpiones
- Family
- Buthidae
- Genus
- Butheolus
- Species
- thalassinus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- syntype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Butheolus thalassinus Simon, 1882 sec. Lowe, 2018
References
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