Buthacus
''Buthacus'' is a genus of scorpion of the family Buthidae. It is distributed across northern and western Africa, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Taxonomy The genus was introduced in 1908 by A.A. Birula, originally as a subgenus of the genus ''Buthus''.Birula, A. A. 1908. Ergebnisse der mit Subvention aus der Erbschaft Treitl unternommenen zoologischen Forschungsreise Dr. F. Werner’s nach dem Anglo-Aegyptischen Sudan und Nord-Uganda. XIV. Skorpiones und Solifugae. ''Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlich-königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien'', 117(1): 121-152. It was elevated to genus rank by M. Vachon in 1949.Vachon, M. 1949. Etudes sur les Scorpions. III (suite). Description des Scorpions du Nord de l’Afrique. ''Archives de l’Institut Pasteur d’Algérie'', 27(1): 66-100. Diversity Species of ''Buthacus'' are very similar to each other and have been considered subspecies in some examples.V ...
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