Scorpio palmatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Neoscorpionina
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Scorpiones Subordo: Neoscorpionina

Familia: Scorpionidae
Subfamilia: Scorpioninae
Genus: Scorpio
Species: Scorpio palmatus

Name

Scorpio palmatus (Ehrenberg, 1828)

Type locality: (For Neotype) Egypt, Alexandria, Borg El Arab, Bahig, W of Bahig village. Originally: “Libyan desert (?Egypt), Egypt (Alexandria, Sinai), Lebanon (mountains), Arabia, Syria.”

Typus: Neotype, Male ♂, AZMM/Sco-2001:1, 01.IX.2001, designated in Afifeh et al., 2024: 39.

Synonymy

Buthus palmatus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Original combination)
Scorpio maurus palmatus (Ehrenberg, 1828)
Scorpio palmatus (Ehrenberg, 1828); Talal et. al. 2015
Buthus palmatus flavus Ehrenberg, 1829
Buthus palmatus rufus Ehrenberg, 1829

References

Primary references

Abu Afifeh, B., Yağmur, E.A., Al-Saraireh, M. & Amr, Z.S. 2024. Revision of the genus Scorpio in Jordan, with a description of a new genus and three new species (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae). Euscorpius 391: 1-66. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Talal, S., Tesler, I.,, Sivan, J.,, Ben-Shlomo, R., Tahir, H.M., Prendini, L., Snir, S. & Gefen, E. 2015. Scorpion speciation in the Holy Land: Multilocus phylogeography corroborates diagnostic differences in morphology and burrowing behavior among Scorpio subspecies and justifies recognition as phylogenetic, ecological and biological species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 91: 226–237. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.04.028 Reference page.