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Rank: | Species | |
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Parent: | Picobuthus Lowe, 2010 | |
Specific Name: | wahibaensis | |
Authorship: | Lowe | |
Publication: | New picobuthoid scorpions (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Oman. Euscorpius 93: 1−53. | |
Page: | 23 | |
Figure(s): | 63–86, 113–114, 121–124, 148–155 | |
Type Specimen(s): | Holotype: adult ♂, Oman, S of An Nuqdah (site F/21), UV detection, humpy dunes, at base of and between dry shrubs on ground, 20°45.48'N 58°35.42'E, 40 m a.s.l., 5 February 2000, 19:00–21:00 h, leg. A. & B. Winkler (NHMB). Paratypes: Oman: 1 adult ♀, Mintirib, dunes 8 km W, 22°23'N 58°47'E, 290 m a.s.l., 8 February 1986, leg. W. Büttiker, Oman Eastern Sands Project (ONHM); 2 ♀, Oman, 4 km N An Nuqdah, sand & grass & Helio- tropium hummocks, 20°53'N 58°44.53'E, 10 m a.s.l., 29 January 1997, leg. I.D. Harrison & M.D. Gallagher, MDG 8844 (GL, NHMB); 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (dismembered), Oman, same locality as holotype, NHMB; 2 ♂, 1 ♀, Oman, East Wahiba Sands (site F/7), Prosopis wood- land, UV detection, on sand dunes in and under small shrubs, 21°39.43'N 59°18.22'E, 37 m a.s.l., 16 December 2001, 18:15–20:15 h, leg. A. Winkler (NHMB); 8 ♂, 2 ♀, Oman, East Wahiba Sands (site F/8), Prosopis woodland, UV detection, on sand dunes in and under small shrubs, 21°39.55'N 59°18.15'E, 41 m a.s.l., 16 December 2001, 20:30–21:30 h, leg. A. Winkler (BMNH, GL, NHMB, MNHN, ONHM) | |
Type Locality: | Oman, S of An Nuqdah, 20°45.48'N 58°35.42'E | |
Fossil: | No | |