| Buthus | |
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| Buthus occitanus (Amoreux, 1789) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Scorpiones |
| Family: | Buthidae |
| Genus: | Buthus Leach, 1815 |
| Type species | |
| Buthus occitanus Amoreux, 1789
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| Diversity | |
| At least 75 species | |
Buthus is a genus of scorpion belonging and being eponymous to the family Buthidae. It is distributed widely across northern Africa, including Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, as well as the Middle East, including Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and possibly Saudi Arabia and southern Turkey. Its European range includes the Iberian Peninsula, southern France, and Cyprus.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
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- ^ Kovařík, F. (2011). "Buthus awashensis sp. n. from Ethiopia (Scorpiones: Buthidae)" (PDF). Euscorpius. 128: 1–6.