Buthus confluens Lourenco , Touloun & Boumezzough, 2012

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 : 26

14. Buthus confluens Lourenco, Touloun & Boumezzough, 2012

Buthus confluens : Lourenço, Touloun and Boumezzough 2012: 22-24, fig. 1-11; Touloun et al. 2014: 76-77.

Type material.

1 M holotype (MNHN N° RS8919), Alhamra (35.39529°, -05.37181°), Tétouan, Morocco. Paratypes: 1 F (MNHN N° RS8920), 1 M (UCAM), all from the same locality.

Distribution.

known from several localities in the Tingitana Pensinsula of Morocco, but also further to the south.

Remarks.

Based on the colour pattern and pigmentation, the original authors suggested that B. confluens was the closest phylogenetic relative in Morocco to B. ibericus , from the Iberian Peninsula. However, because the presence of three dark bands on the metasoma is shared among several Buthus species, this claim should be further confirmed with additional data.