Buthus atlantis Pocock, 1889

Sousa, Pedro, Arnedo, Miquel A. & Harris, D. James, 2017, Updated catalogue and taxonomic notes on the Old-World scorpion genus Buthus Leach, 1815 (Scorpiones, Buthidae), ZooKeys 686, pp. 15-84 : 24

4. Buthus atlantis Pocock, 1889

= Tityus tenuimanus Banks 1910: 189 (synonymized by Lourenço and Francke 1984: 428). 1 F holotype (MCZ), Buena Vista Lake, California, USA (incorrect locality).

Buthus atlantis : Pocock 1889b: 340-341, pl. XV, fig. 4; Birula 1896: 244; Kraepelin 1891: 197, 199; Birula 1903: 107-108; Werner 1932: 300-305; Vachon 1949a: 162-169,fig. 345, 347, 349, 351, 354, 355, 357-362; Vachon 1952a: 254-255, fig. 345, 347, 349, 351, 354, 355, 357-362; Malhomme 1954: 25; Bücherl 1964: 57; Pérez 1974: 22; Levy and Amitai 1980: 15; EIHennawy 1992: 98, 119; Kovařík 1998: 106; Fet and Lowe 2000: 91; Lourenço 2005a: 233-234; Lourenço and Geniez 2005: 5; Stockmann and Ythier 2010: 360-361; Stockmann 2015: fig. 5.

Buthus Atlantis (sic): Aboumaâd et al. 2014: 5.

Buthus atlantis atlantis: Vachon 1949a: 166-168; Vachon 1952a: 252, 254; Le Corroller 1967: 63; Kovařík 1995: 20; Fet and Lowe 2000: 91; Lourenço 2003: 883-885, fig. 18-22; Touloun et al. 2001: 2; Gantenbein and Largiadèr 2003: 120, 122; Touloun 2012: 43, fig. 9A.

Buthus occitanus atlantis: Kraepelin 1899: 26-27; Werner 1934b: 86-87, fig. 5; Schenkel 1949: 186-187.

Buthus (Buthus) atlantis : Birula 1910: 145; Birula 1917a: 213, 223.

Tityus tenuimanus : Cox 1921: 12; Ewing 1928: 22; Mello-Leitão 1931: 121, 140; MelloLeitão 1939: 60, 64, 71; Comstock 1940: 27; Mello-Leitão 1945: 308; Gertsch and Soleglad 1966: 2; Hjelle 1972: 28; Lourenço and Francke 1984: 427, fig. 10-12.

Type material.

1 F holotype (NHMUK), Essaouira (formerly Mogador) (approx. 31.49°, -9.76°), Morocco.

Distribution.

known to occur only in sandy dune habitats close to the Atlantic Ocean in Morocco, between Essaouira and Agadir.

Remarks.

It is the largest known Buthus species.