Androctonus australis

Familia: Buthidae
Genus: Androctonus
Species: Androctonus australis

Androctonus australis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality: "Africa"

Typus: Holotype Male ♂, UUZM [?]

• Scorpio australis Linnaeus, 1758: 625. (Original combination)

• Androctonus hector C.L. Koch, 1839: 6-8, Pl. CLXXXI, fig. 433. (Junior synonym of Androctonus australis in Kraepelin, 1891: 32).
  • Type locality: "North Africa"
    • Typus: [Lost?] Syntypes: 3 Female ♀.
• Androctonus australis hector C.L. Koch, 1839; after Kraepelin, 1891.
• Androctonus priamus C.L. Koch, 1839: 45-46, pl. CLVII, fig. 366 (synonymized by Kraepelin, 1891: 32).
  • Type locality: Java", incorrect locality, probably North Africa (per Fet & Lowe, 2000: 68).
    • Typus: [Lost?]

• Androctonus australis africanus Lamy, Le Pape & Weill, 1974: 3223-3226; Fet & Lowe 2000: 69. (Junior synonym of Androctonus australis by Lourenço, 2005: 147)
  • Type locality: Tunisia, Tozeur (=Tawzar)
    • Typus: [Lost? (Depository unknown)] Syntypes: 1 Female, Juveniles

• Androctonus australis garzonii Goyffon & Lamy, 1973: 137-144, fig. 1-3; Fet & Lowe 2000: 70. (Junior synonym of Androctonus australis by Lourenço, 2005: 147)
  • Type locality: Tunisia, Tozeur (=Tawzar)
    • Typus: [Lost? (Depository unknown)] Syntypes: Unknown

Note: UNFINISHED. See others in Fet & Lowe, 2000: 68, some later elsewhere. Different subspecies are listed as valid in various works. Per Lourenço, 2005, three subspecies were recognised by Vachon, 1952

• Androctonus australis australis (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Androctonus australis hector C.L. Koch, 1839 (synonym after Kraepelin, 1891 per Fet & Lowe 2000).
• Androctonus australis libycus Ehrenberg, 1828.

• Else for: Androctonus australis baluchicus see Androctonus baluchicus.
• ' Else for: Androctonus australis finitimus see Androctonus finitimus

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 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. 

• https://scorpohunter.weebly.com/aa-morphs.html

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