A new species of Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828 from the Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria (Scorpiones: Buthidae)

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Ythier, Eric, Sadine, Salah Eddine, Alioua, Youcef, Lourenço, Wilson R. (2025): A new species of Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828 from the Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Faunitaxys 13 (8): 1-8, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-13(08), URL: dx.doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000002173 Abstract. – A new species of Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828 is described on the basis of one male specimen collected in Eferi, at the foothills of the Tassili n'Ajjer massif, Wilaya of Djanet, Algeria.

This new scorpion taxon represents the 42 nd known species of the genus Androctonus and the 7 th reported from Algeria. A geographical distribution map of the Androctonus species occurring in the region of the Saharan Mountain ranges of Algeria and Niger is presented.