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Buthus
Buthus is a genus of scorpion belonging and being eponymous to the family Buthidae. It is distributed widely across northern Africa, including Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, as well as the Middle East, including Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and possibly Saudi-Arabia and southern Turkey. Its European range includes the Iberian Peninsula, southern France, and Cyprus.
22 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Occitanus
sectionOccitanus
Mardochei
sectionMardochei
Israeli Scorpion
speciesButhus israelis
Tunetanus
sectionTunetanus
Rochati
sectionRochati
Boumalenii
sectionBoumalenii
Buthus maamora
speciesButhus maamora
Buthus amri
speciesButhus amri
Buthus elizabethae
speciesButhus elizabethae
Buthus kunti
speciesButhus kunti
Buthus nigrovesiculosus
speciesButhus nigrovesiculosus
Buthus awashensis
speciesButhus awashensis
Buthus nabataeus
speciesButhus nabataeus
Buthus elhennawhyi
speciesButhus elhennawhyi
Buthus adrianae
speciesButhus adrianae
Buthus trinacrius
speciesButhus trinacrius
Buthus bobo
speciesButhus bobo
Buthus danyii
speciesButhus danyii
Buthus prudenti
speciesButhus prudenti
Buthus centroafricanus
speciesButhus centroafricanus
Buthus labuschagnei
speciesButhus labuschagnei
Buthus jianxinae
speciesButhus jianxinae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 127316.