The Scorpion Fauna of the Southwestern Part of Saudi Arabia | ||
| Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, B. Zoology | ||
| Article 3, Volume 11, Issue 1, June 2019, Pages 19-29 PDF (1.45 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/eajbsz.2019.28565 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Abdulaziz R.M. Alqahtani1; Belal Elgammal2; Khaled Ismail Ghaleb3; Ahmed Badry4 | ||
| 1Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Bisha, Bisha 61922, p.o. 551, Saudi Arabia, | ||
| 2Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Bisha, Bisha 61922, p.o. Box 551, Saudi Arabia, | ||
| 3Department of laboratory, Sciences College of applied medical sciences, University of Bisha, Bisha 61922, p.o. Box 551, Saudi Arabia | ||
| 4Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Al Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The diversity of the scorpion fauna of the southwestern part of Saudi Arabia was examined based on a large collection covering most of four major regions. Fifteen scorpion species were collected during field expedition and identified in a light of recent revisionary systematics. Family Buthidae was represented by twelve species in nine genera (Androctonus, Buthacus, Compsobuthus, Hottentotta, Leiurus, Orthochirus, Parabuthus, Trypanothacus and Vachoniolus) and family Scorpionidae by three species in two genera (Nebo and Scorpio). Buthacus yotvatensis is recorded for the first time in Saudi Arabia. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| diversity; scorpion fauna; southwestern part of Saudi Arabia | ||
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