A new species of Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828 from the Northern savannas of Cameroon (Scorpiones: Buthidae).

A new species of scorpion belonging to the genus Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828 (family Buthidae C.L. Koch, 1837), is described on the basis of one adult female and seven males and six females juveniles collected in the savannah formations of Sanguéré-Djoi, Cameroon. The material was collected with the use of Barber traps what explains a predominance of immature individuals in the sample. This Androctonus population is the first record of the genus for Cameroon and can be associated with Androctonus hoggarensis (Pallary, 1929), species originally described from the Hoggar Mountains in Algeria. The analysis of a several morphological characters of both species confirms some differences. More conclusive however are the characteristics of endemic populations of the two species. Respectively in a Saharan Massif, major endemic centres within the Sahara desert, and in a savannah-like formation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]