Frantisek Kovarik and co-workers have investigated new materials from the occidental regions and recently they published the discovery of three new species of Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Buthidae) from Morocco.
Androctonus argoubi Kovarik, Lowe & Stahlavsky 2025
Androctonus stockmanni Kovarik, Lowe & Stahlavsky 2025
Androctonus vaneki Kovarik, Lowe & Stahlavsky 2025
The article has an identification key for the three new species and the morphological similar A. sergenti Vachon, 1948.
Abstract:
New data are presented on the taxonomy and distribution of the dark species of the genus Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828 in Morocco and Western Sahara. Three new species, A. argoubi sp. n., A. stockmanni sp. n., and A. vaneki sp. n. from Morocco are described, characterized by having metasoma I–IV ventrally punctate, a character that is well developed in A. stockmanni sp. n., and A. vaneki sp. n., and weakly developed in A. argoubi sp. n. Dark species from Morocco are compared with A. sergenti Vachon, 1948, and A. bourdoni Vachon, 1948. We describe and compare their external morphology, illustrating their characters comprehensively in color photographs. The hemispermatophores of two species are described and illustrated, and a map showing the distributions of the studied species is provided. Furthermore, for all three newly described species, we provided their karyograms, which are very similar (2n = 24) and demonstrate the karyotypic uniformity of the entire genus Androctonus.
Reference:
Kovarik F, Lowe G, Stahlavsky F. Three new species of Androctonus from Morocco (Arachnida: Scorpiones: Buthidae). Euscorpius. 2025(420):1–29. [Open Access]
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