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

We describe and illustrate a new scorpion species, Androctonus tihamicus sp. 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, 17...

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Main Authors: Abdulaziz R. Alqahtani, Ersen Aydın Yağmur, Ahmed Badry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2023-03-01
Series:ZooKeys
Online Access:https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/101100/download/pdf/