Androctonus bicolor

Familia: Buthidae
Genus: Androctonus
Species: Androctonus bicolor

Androctonus bicolor Ehrenberg, 1828.

Type locality: "Libya (coastal plains), also Syria and [Egypt] Sinai mountains" ("In Libya littorali, Syria et in montibus sinaiticis frequens a nobis observatus.")

Typus: Syntypes, 7 specimens (ZMB -137, "Egypt"). 2 specimens (ZMB-138, "Syria") per Fet & Lowe 2000: 70.

• Androctonus (Prionurus) bicolor Ehrenberg in Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1828, Unnumbered text, Pl. II. fig. 4. (Original combination); Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1829: 358; Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1831 (unnumbered); Moritz & Fischer, 1980: 310.
• Scorpio (Androctonus) bicoior (Ehrenberg, 1828); Gervais, 1844b: 41-42.
• Prionurus bicolor (Ehrenberg, 1828); Pocock, 1895: 307-309.
• Buthus bicolor (Ehrenberg, 1828); Kraepelin, 1899: 17; Pocock, 1902a: 374; etc.
• Buthus (Prionurus) bicoior (Ehrenberg, 1828); Birula, 19OOc; 9; Birula, 1908: 138-139.
• Androctonus bicolor Ehrenberg, 1828); Fet & Lowe 2000: 70; Lourenço, 2005: 161, Figs. 32-35. (includes synonym of Androctonus aeneus later rejected).

• Ehrenberg, C.G. 1828-1831. Animalia evertebrata exclusis insectis. Series Prima cum tabularum decase prima. In: Hemprich, P.C. & Ehrenberg, C.G. (Eds). Symbolae physicae. Pp. 1–71. Officina Academica, Berolini [Berlin]LINK BHL Reference page. 
• Fet, V.Y. & Lowe, G. 2000. Family Buthidae C.L Koch, 1837. Pp. 54–286 in Fet, V., Sissom, W.D., Lowe, G. & Braunwalder, M.E. (Editors). Catalog of the Scorpions of the World (1758–1998). The New York Entomological Society, New York. 690 pp. Reference page. 
• Lourenço, W.R. 2005. Nouvelles considerations taxonomiques sur les espèces du genre Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828 et description de deux nouvelles espèces (Scorpione, Buthidae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 112(1): 145–171. BHL DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.80291 Reference page. 

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