The Scorpion Fauna of the Southwestern Part of Saudi Arabia

Alqahtani, Abdulaziz R.M.; Elgammal, Belal; Ghaleb, Khaled Ismail; Badry, Ahmed

doi:10.21608/eajbsz.2019.28565

The Scorpion Fauna of the Southwestern Part of Saudi Arabia

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Bisha, Bisha 61922, p.o. 551, Saudi Arabia,

² Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Bisha, Bisha 61922, p.o. Box 551, Saudi Arabia,

³ Department of laboratory, Sciences College of applied medical sciences, University of Bisha, Bisha 61922, p.o. Box 551, Saudi Arabia

⁴ Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Al Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

10.21608/eajbsz.2019.28565

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.

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