A new species of Buthus from Central Spain

 

Happy New Year!

I have received quite a few new articles during the last month, but due to a long and well-deserved holiday I now have a long queue of interesting articles waiting. Please be patient, I will blog about them soon. :)

The Iberian scorpion fauna have exploded in the last year with the description of many new species with limited distribution. Now Rolando Turiel and Carlos Turiel have discovered another one from Serrania de Cuenca in central Spain.

Buthus pedrosousai Teruel & Turiel, 2021

The articles presents also updated distributional data for nine other Buthus Leach, 1815 (Buthidae) species in the region.

Abstract:
The present paper represents the third contribution to our taxonomic revision to the genus Buthus Leach, 1815 in the Iberian Peninsula. Herein, we describe a new species from the Serrania de Cuenca (central Spain) and present additional locality records to complement to known geographical distribution of a further nine species: Buthus alacanti Teruel & Turiel, 2020, Buthus baeticus Teruel & Turiel, 2020, Buthus delafuentei Teruel & Turiel, 2020, Buthus elongatus Rossi, 2012, Buthus ibericus Lourenco & Vachon, 2004, Buthus manchego Teruel & Turiel, 2020, Buthus montanus Lourenco & Vachon, 2004, Buthus occitanus (Amoreux, 1789) and Buthus serrano Teruel & Turiel, 2020. The West European diversity of Buthus now reaches 15 species, all of them being local endemics.

Reference:
Teruel R, Turiel C. The genus Buthus Leach, 1815 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in the Iberian peninsula. Part 3: A new species from central Spain and new records. Revista Iberica de Arachnologia. 2021(39):3-11.

Thanks to Rolando, Carlos and Luis for all sending me this article!

Family Buthidae