Androctonus tihamicus sp. nov. from the Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia (Scorpiones, Buthidae)

By

R. Alqahtani, Abdulaziz
Yağmur, Ersen Aydın
Badry, Ahmed

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1152

Pages

9--34

Subjects

molecular phylogeny , mtDNA , new species , Scorpion , Tihamah Plain

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1152.101100

 

Abstract

We describe and illustrate a new scorpion species,Androctonus tihamicussp. nov., from the Mecca Province of southwestern Saudi Arabia. The new species is compared to the genusAndroctonusEhrenberg, 1828, which is distributed throughout the Middle East, and especially toA. australis(Linnaeus, 1758). We provide the molecular phylogeny for this species.