Updated catalogue and taxonomic notes on the Old-World scorpion genus Buthus Leach, 1815 (Scorpiones, Buthidae) Author Sousa, Pedro Author Arnedo, Miquel A. Author Harris, D. James text ZooKeys 2017 686 15 84 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.686.12206 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.686.12206 1313-2970-686-15 976E23A1CFC74CB381705B59452825A6 976E23A1CFC74CB381705B59452825A6 51 . Buthus tunetatus (Herbst, 1800) Scorpio tunetanus Herbst 1800 : 68-69, pl. III, fig. 3 (not pl. II, fig. 2, as listed in the text); Latreille 1804 : 122-124. Androctonus (Leiurus) tunetanus : Ehrenberg in Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1829 : 354. Androctonus (Leiurus) tunetanus genuinus : Ehrenberg in Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1829 : 354. Androctonus (Liurus) tunetanus : Ehrenberg in Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1831 (pages unnumbered) Androctonus (Liurus) tunetanus genuinus : Ehrenberg in Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1831 (pages unnumbered). Androctonus tunetanus : C. L. Koch 1845 : 15-19, pl. CCCCI (sic), fig. 968; C. L. Koch 1850 : 90. Buthus occitanus (MIS): Kovarik and Whitman 2005 (part): 106. Buthus occitanus tunetanus : Birula 1903 : 107; Birula 1910 : 118; Borelli 1914a : 154-155; Borelli 1914b : 461; Borelli 1924 : 4-5; Borelli 1928 : 351; Giltay 1929 : 196-197; Werner 1929 : 30-31; Caporiacco 1932 : 395-396; Schenkel 1932 : 379-380; Werner 1932 : 300-305; Pallary 1934 : 99; Borelli 1934 : 169; Werner 1934b : 84-85, fig. 4; Werner 1936 : 173; Caporiacco 1937 : 345; Schenkel 1949 : 186; Vachon 1949c : 344-353, fig. 381-393; Vachon 1951a : fig. 670; Vachon 1952a : 272-281, fig. 381-393, 670; Vachon 1966 : 211; Perez 1974: 22; Levy and Amitai 1980 : 16; El-Hennawy 1992 : 98, 121; Kovarik 1995 : 20; Kovarik 1997 : 179; Gantenbein et al. 1998 a: 51; Gantenbein et al. 1998 b: 33-39; Kovarik 1998 : 106; Fet and Lowe 2000 : 97; Lourenco 2002 , p. 113, 115, fig. 8-9, 11, 13; Kovarik 2002 : 6; Gantenbein and Largiader 2003 : 120, 122; Ben Othmen et al. 2004 : 257; Touloun 2012 : 37, 41. Buthus (Buthus) occitanus tunetanus : Birula 1908 : 123-124; Birula 1909 : 507-508, fig. B; Birula 1910 : 156-157; Birula 1917a : 223; Roewer 1943 : 206. Buthus tunetanus : Simon 1872 : 251-252; Lourenco 2003 : 897-899, fig. 57-61; Kovarik 2006 : 2, 8, 10, 15, fig. 16-19.; Sadine et al. 2011 : 6; Lourenco and Cloudsley-Thompson 2012 : 13-16, fig. 8; Lourenco and Simon 2012 : 12; Lourenco 2013 : 65-66; Rossi, Tropea and Yagmur 2013: 4-5, 7 Scorpion Tunetanus (ISS): Latreille 1817 : 106. Type material. Types lost according to Fet and Lowe (2000) , Tunisia. Distribution. The species is currently distributed across Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia, and doubtfully in the island of Malta. Remarks. Because of the description of new species from Tunisia, and the lack of both type specimen and locality (beyond the country), a neotype for B. tunetanus is necessary to stabilize the taxonomy of Tunisian Buthus . As explained for B. paris , this is further complicated by recent diagnoses of B. tunetanus that differ from those offered by Vachon (1952a) , and as such if Vachon's B. tuntetanus material is found in the MNHN it should be given priority in the future designation of a neotype. Vachon (1952a) did not formally described any variety of B. tunetanus , but he again split the specimens that compose the species into four regions: 1) the typical region, corresponding to north and central Tunisia; 2) the southern montane region of Algeria, specimens from which have subsequently been described as B. tassili ; 3) the Algerian Saharan Atlas and the southern region of the High Plateau; and 4) the disjunct desert regions of southern Tunisia, western central Algeria and eastern central Morocco. It is unclear whether region 3 or 4 might either correspond to B. dunlopi or B. saharicus . As explained in Fet and Lowe (2000) , the name A. (Leiurus) t. genuinus refers to the nominotypical form of the species and as such the adjective " genuinus " is not an available subspecific name.