“…Vachon [1952] established the genus classification and turned it into a morphologically and geographically homogeneous group with seven known species in the North of Africa. Androctonus now consists of 33 species [Rein, 2021] which are distributed in deserts and semi-arid regions on the Atlantic coast of Africa from Togo to Morocco [Lourenço, 2005[Lourenço, , 2008Lourenço, Qi, 2007;Lourenço et al, 2009;Teruel, Kovařík, 2014;Rossi, 2015;Sousa et al, 2017;Ythier, 2021;Ythier, Lourenço, 2022], in Northern Africa from Algeria to Tunisia [Vachon, 1952;Teruel et al, 2013;Teruel, Kovařík, 2014;Ythier, 2021], in Ethiopia [Rossi, 2015],…”