Parabuthus

Parabuthus
Parabuthus transvaalicus , male
Systematics
Sub-stem : Jawbearers (Chelicerata) Class : Arachnids (arachnida) Order : Scorpions (Scorpiones) Superfamily : Buthoidea Family : Buthidae Genre : Parabuthus
Scientific name
Parabuthus
Pocock , 1890

The genus Parabuthus comprises 33 species of scorpion that are mainly native to Africa. Most representatives prefer dry habitats, such as deserts and steppes, with strong temperature fluctuations between day and night.

distribution

The distribution area of ​​the animals is Africa, south of the Sahara and the southwestern Arabian Peninsula, along the Red Sea from Jeddah to Yemen. The distribution in Central and West Africa has not been clearly established.

Phylogenetics

The following cladogram shows the relationships between 27 different Parabuthus species on the basis of the analyzes by Prendini & Esposito (2010). Newer species were not included in the investigations, so that their position in this system is unclear (refers to Parabuthus cimrmani , Parabuthus eritreaensis , Parabuthus truculentus and Parabuthus zavattarii ).

	Grosphus madagascariensis
	Uroplectes triangulifer     P. brevimanus     P. distridor     P. kuanyamarum     P. glabrimanus     P. gracilis     P. nanus     P. setiventer     P. granulatus     P. kalaharicus     P. namibensis     P. laevifrons     P. stridulus     P. liosoma     P. heterurus     P. granimanus     P. hunteri     P. capensis     P. muelleri     P. calvus     P. pallidus     P. planicauda     P. mossambicensis     P. Kraepelini     P. raudus     P. worsei     P. transvaalicus     P. villosus

Species and subspecies

Parabuthus brevimanus (Thorell, 1876) Parabuthus calvus Purcell, 1898 Parabuthus capensis (Ehrenberg, 1831) Parabuthus cimrmani Kovarik, 2004 Parabuthus distridor Lamoral, 1980 Parabuthus eritreaensis Kovarik, 2003 Parabuthus glabrimanus Prendini & Esposito, 2010 Parabuthus granimanus Pocock, 1895 Parabuthus g. granimaus Parabuthus g. fuscicauda Parabuthus granulatus (Ehrenberg, 1831) Parabuthus g. granulatus Parabuthus g. strenuus Parabuthus gracilis Lamoral, 1979 Parabuthus heterurus Pocock, 1899 Parabuthus h. heterurus Parabuthus h. stefaninii

Parabuthus hunteri Pocock, 1895 Parabuthus kalaharicus Lamoral, 1977 Parabuthus kraepelini Werner, 1902 Parabuthus kuanyamarum Monard, 1937 Parabuthus laevifrons (Simon, 1888) Parabuthus leiosoma (Ehrenberg, 1828) Parabuthus l. leiosoma Parabuthus l. abyssinicus Parabuthus l. dmitrievi Parabuthus maximus Werner, 1913 Parabuthus mixtus Borelli, 1925 Parabuthus m. mixtus Parabuthus m. obscurior Parabuthus mossambicensis (Peters, 1861) Parabuthus m. mossambicensis Parabuthus m. flavidus Parabuthus muelleri Prendini 2000

Parabuthus namibensis Lamoral, 1979 Parabuthus nanus Lamoral, 1979 Parabuthus neglectus Purcell, 1899 Parabuthus pallidus Pocock, 1895 Parabuthus planicauda (Pocock, 1889) Parabuthus planicauda Parabuthus frenchi Parabuthus raudus (Simon, 1888) Parabuthus schlechteri Purcell, 1899 Parabuthus setiventer Prendini & Esposito, 2010 Parabuthus stridulus Hewitt, 1913 Parabuthus transvaalicus Purcell, 1899 Parabuthus villosus (Peters, 1862) Parabuthus v. villosus Parabuthus v. brachystylus Parabuthus zavattarii Caporiacco, 1939

Web links

Commons : Parabuthus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Species of the genus Parabuthus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Unknown author: Parabuthus sp. Processing status: October 16, 2004 (accessed: May 20, 2006)
2. ↑ Lorenzo Prendini, Lauren A. Esposito: A reanalysis of Parabuthus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) phylogeny with descriptions of two new Parabuthus species endemic to the Central Namib gravel plains, Namibia . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 159, 2010, pp. 673-710