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

We describe and illustrate a new scorpion species, Androctonustihamicussp. nov., from the Mecca Province of southwestern Saudi Arabia. The new species is compared to the genus Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828, which is distributed throughout the Middle East, and especially to A.australis (Linnaeus, 1758)...

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Autores principales: Alqahtani, Abdulaziz R., Yağmur, Ersen Aydın, Badry, Ahmed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2023
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10193280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37214740
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1152.101100
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Sumario:We describe and illustrate a new scorpion species, Androctonustihamicussp. nov., from the Mecca Province of southwestern Saudi Arabia. The new species is compared to the genus Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828, which is distributed throughout the Middle East, and especially to A.australis (Linnaeus, 1758). We provide the molecular phylogeny for this species.

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