Neobuthus berberensis Hirst, 1911

Kovařík, František, Lowe, Graeme, Awale, Ahmed Ibrahim, Elmi, Hassan Sh Abdirahman & Abdi, Ali, 2018, 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), Euscorpius 271, pp. 1-82 : 14

Neobuthus berberensis Hirst, 1911

( Figs. 57–70, 404–405, 416–417, 438, Table 5)

Neobuthus berberensis Hirst, 1911: 462–464 ;? Borelli, 1919: 361, 365;? Borelli, 1931: 219; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 186; Lourenço, 2001: 178, 179, fig. 14; Lourenço, 2005: 27; Lourenço & Qi, 2006: 91; Kovařík & Lowe, 2012: 3, figs. 1–2, 9–17, 22–27, 39–40, 48, 72; Lowe & Kovařík, 2016: 2, 42, 43.

Butheolus ferrugineus: Kovařík, 2003: 137 (in part); Kovařík, 2004: 4 (in part); Kovařík & Mazuch, 2011: 5.

Neobuthus ferrugineus: Kovařík & Lowe, 2012: 3–7 , figs. 28, 30 –31, 33, 43, 52–59 (in part).

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE DEPOSITORY. Somaliland, Berbera ; BMNH.

TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Somaliland, Berbera, 1♀ (holotype, Figs. 63–65), purchased G. W. Bury ; BMNH No. 1906.3.25.125.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED. Somaliland , Berbera env., 10°22.8'N 45°02.2'E, 107 m a.s.l., sandy area, (figs. 9 and 13 in Kovařík & Lowe, 2012), 8.-10.VII.2011, 1♂1♂ im. 2♀1♀ im. 1juv. (topotypes, Figs. 57, 60, 66–70, 404, 416, 427), leg. F. Kovařík ( UV detection) , FKCP ; near Berbera , 10°15'30.5"N 45°06'04.2"E, 376 m a.s.l., stony area (fig. 59 in Kovařík & Lowe, 2012: 12), 12.VII.2011, 1♂ 1♀ 1juv. ( Figs. 58–59, 61–62, 405), leg. F. Kovařík ( UV detection) , FKCP .

EMENDED DIAGNOSIS. Total length 20–21 mm (males) and 27–32 mm (females); carapace densely granulated with only anterior median carinae developed, area between these carinae yellow to orange; tergites with fuscous variable pigmentation; pedipalps of female yellow without black spots; pedipalp relatively slender, males with femur L/ W 2.30 –2.50, patella L/ W 2.40 – 2.55, chela L/ W 4.53 –4.70; chela movable finger with 5–6 subrows of primary denticles, 4–5 external accessory denticles flanking proximal end of each subrow; trichobothria d 2 usually absent from pedipalp femur and patella; dorsoexternal and ventroexternal carinae on pedipalp patella in female well developed; pedipalps including trochanter without dark setae (population from sandy area) or with several setae, posterior margins of tergites without (population from sandy area) or with 1– 2 pairs of macrosetae (population from stony plain); metasomal macrosetae very short in male, stout and spiniform, and long and fine in females (population from stony plain); sternites III–VI without carinae, with dense, fine granulation in males, females with sternites III–VI smooth; sternite VII more strongly granulated without carinae in males, with four weak granulated carinae in females; metasoma I–III with median lateral and dorsal carinae present or at least weakly indicated in both sexes; metasoma I–III dorsally granulated in both sexes; soles of telotarsi with sparse setation, leg III of adults with 9–14 ventral macrosetae on telotarsus; pectine teeth: 17–20 (males), 13–16 (females).