Wilson Roberto Lourenço

Wilson Roberto Lourenço, French-Brazilian arachnologist.

  • Departement de Systematique et Evolution, USM 0602, Section Arthropodes (Arachnologie), Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, CP 053, 61 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France.
  • E-mail: arachne@mnhn.fr

Author abbreviation: Lourenço

Taxon names authored

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  • 194 taxon names authored by Wilson Roberto Lourenço

Publications

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1981

1982

1984

  • 1984. Ananteris luciae, nouvelle espèce de Scorpion de l' Amazonie brasilienne (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Journal of Arachnology 12(3): 279-282. Reference page. 

1986

1987

1989

  • & Florez 1989. Los escorpiones (Chelicerata) de Colombia. I. La Fauna de la Isla Gorgona. Approximación biogeografica. Caldasia 16(76): 66-70. Reference page. 

1990

  • 1990. A new species of Peucetia from Colombia (Araneae, Oxyopidae). Caldasia 16: 193–195. Reference page. 

1991

  • 1991a. Les Scorpions (Chelicerata) de Colombie. II. Les faunes des regions de Santa Marta et de la Cordillere orientale. Approche biogeographique. Senckenbergiana Biologica 71(4/6): 275-288. Reference page. 
  • Lourenço, W.R. 1991. Biogéographie évolutive, écologie et les stratégies biodémographiques chez les scorpions néotropicaux. Compte Rendus de la Société de Biogéographie 67(4): 171–190.

1993

  • 1993. A review of the geographical distribution of the genus Ananteris Thorell (Scorpiones: Buthidae), with description of a new species. Revista de Biologia Tropical 41(3): 697-701. Reference page. 

1994

1995

  • 1995. Description de trois nouveaux genres et quatre nouvelles espèces de Scorpions Buthidae de Madagascar. Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Série 4, Section A, Zoologie, Biologie et Écologie d’Animal 17(1-2): 95–106. Reference page. 

1996

  • 1996. A propos de deux espèces nouvelles appartenant au genre Butheoloides Hirst (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Revue Arachnologique 11(9): 87-94. Reference page. 

1997

1998

  • 1998 Panbiogeographie, les distributions disjointes et le concept de famille relictuelle chez les scorpions. Biogeographica 74(3): 133–144. Reference page. 

1999

2000

  • 2000. Confirmation d’une espèce nouvelle appartenant au genre Butheoloides Hirst (Scorpiones, Buthidae) du Nigéria. Revue Arachnologique 13(9): 129-133. Reference page. 
  • & Monod, L. 2000. Description of a new genus and species of scorpion (Bothriuridae) from Brazil. Ekológia 19(supplement 3): 145–152. PDF. Reference page. 

2001

  • 2001. Taxonomic considerations on the genera Butheolus Simon, Nanobuthus Pocock and Neobuthus Hirst (Scorpions, Buthidae) with the description of a new species of Neobuthus from Ethiopia. Ecology of Desert Environments 2001: 171–183. Reference page. 
  • 2001a. Un nouveau genre de Buthidae, probable vicariant geographique d ́Anomalobuthus Kraepelin (Chelicerata, Scorpiones). Biogeographica 77(1): 15–20. Reference page. 
  • 2001b. A propos de quelques decisions taxonomiques concernant des scorpions des families Buthidae, Chaerilidae et Scorpiopidae. Biogeographica 77(4): 173–175. Reference page. 
  • 2001d. Description of a new species of Ananteris Thorell, 1859 from Bolivia (Scorpiones, Buthidae), with comments on the distribution of the genus. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg 13(63): 271-277. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
  • 2001e. Description of a new species of Ananteris Thorell, 1891 from the south of French Guyana (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Zoosystema 23(4): 689-693. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
  • 2001f. Further taxonomic considerations on the Northwestern African species of Buthacus Birula (Scorpiones, Buthidae), and description of two new species. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg 13(63): 255-269. Reference page. 

2002

  • 2002a. Nouvelles considérations sur la systématique et la biogéographie du genre Butheoloides Hirst (Scorpiones, Buthidae) avec description d’un nouveau sous-genre et de deux nouvelles especes. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 109 (4): 725-733. Reference page. 
  • Lourenço, W.R. 2002. Considérations sur les modèles de distribution et différentiation du genre Buthus Leach, 1815, avec la description d’une nouavelle espèce des montagnes du Tassili des Ajjer Algérie (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Biogeographica 78(3): 109–127.
  • , Modrý, D. & Amr, Z.S. 2002. Description of a new species of Leiurus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Scorpiones, Buthidae) from the south of Jordan. Revue suisse de zoologie 109(3): 635–642. BHL. Reference page. 

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

  • & Pham, D.S. 2014. A second species of Euscorpiops Vachon from caves in Vietnam (Scorpiones, Euscorpiidae, Scorpiopinae). Comptes Rendus Biologies 337(9): 535-544. Reference page. 

2015

2016

  • 2016. A preliminary synopsis on amber scorpions with special reference to Burmite species: an extraordinary development of our knowledge in only 20 years. ZooKeys 600: 75–87. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.600.8913 Reference page. 
  • 2016a. Scorpions from the Mitaraka Massif in French Guiana: Description of one new genus and species (Scorpiones: Chactidae). Comptes Rendus Biologies 339(3–4): 141–146. DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2016.02.003 Open access Reference page. 
  • 2016b. Scorpions from the Mitaraka Massif in French Guiana II. Description of one new species of Ananteris Thorell, 1891 (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Comptes Rendus Biologies 339: 214–221. Reference page. 
  • 2016c. A new species of the genus Buthus Leach, 1815 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from dry forest formations in Central African Republic. Serket 15(2): 71-79. Reference page. 

2017

2018

  • 2018. Scorpions at high altitudes: A new species of Scorpiops Peters, 1861 (Scorpiones: Scorpiopidae) from the Taxkorgan Reserve, Xinjiang, China. Comptes Rendus Biologies 341: 362-369. Reference page. 
  • , Chichi, S. & Sadine, S.E. 2018. A new species of Buthus Leach, 1815 from the region of Bou Sâada-M’sila, Algeria; A possible case of vicariance for the genus (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 32: 15-20. Reference page. 
  • & Košulič, O. 2018. A new remarkable species of Alloscorpiops Vachon, 1980 from Myanmar (Burma) (Scorpiones, Scorpiopidae). ZooKeys 775: 47–58. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.775.24248 Reference page. 
  • & Rossi, A. 2018. A new species of Compsobuthus Vachon, 1949 from Aïr Massif, Niger (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Onychium 14: 3-8. Full article (PDF Reference page. 
  • , Pham, D.S., Thi-Hang Tran & Thi-Hang Tran 2018. The genus Vietbocap Lourenço & Pham, 2010 in the Thien Duong cave, Vietnam: A possible case of subterranean speciation in scorpions (Scorpiones: Pseudochactidae). Comptes Rendus Biologies 341: 264-273. Reference page. 

2019

2020

2021

  • 2021. A new species of Leiurus Ehrenberg (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Nigeria, with extension of the distribution range of the genus to the Southwestern portion of the African continent. Serket 18(1): 1–10. Reference page. 
  • 2021a. The genus Ananteris Thorell, 1891 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in the state of Amapá Brazil, and description of a new species. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 50: 73.76. Reference page. 
  • 2021b. Some additional comments on the Ananteridae or ‘ Ananteris group’ and description of a new species of Ananteris Thorell from Central Brazil (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Zootaxa 4984(1): 347–356. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4984.1.25. Reference page. 
  • & Motta, P.C. 2021. One more new species of Ananteris Thorell, 1891 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from the Cerrados of the Federal District in Brazil. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 38: 121-125. Reference page. 
  • & Ythier, E. 2021. A particular new species of Orthochirus Karsch, 1891 from Somalia (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Serket 17(4): 335–349. Reference page. 
  • , Afifeh, B.A., Al-Saraireh, M., Baker, M.A. & Amr, Z. 2021. New insights into the taxonomy of the genus Buthus Leach, 1815 in Jordan and description of a new species (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Zoology in the Middle East 67(2): 1-9.DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2021.1908507 Reference page. 
  • Ythier, E., Sadine, S.E., Haddadi, M.L. & 2021. A new species of Buthus Leach, 1815 from Algeria (Scorpiones: Buthidae) and an interesting new case of vicariance. Faunitaxys 9(21): 1–9. Reference page. 

2022

2023

  • Ythier, E. & 2023. Two new scorpion species from Central Saudi Arabia (Scorpiones: Buthidae).Faunitaxys 11(8): 1–8. Reference page. 
  • Lv, H-Y. & Di, Z-Y. 2023. Scorpiops zhui sp. n., a new species of Scorpiops Peters, 1861 from Chongqing, China (Scorpiones: Scorpiopidae). Zootaxa 5257(1): 40–48. Reference page. 
  • Ythier, E. & 2023. A new species of Buthiscus Birula, 1905 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from the Adrar des Ifoghas, Mali . Faunitaxys 11(22): 1–7. Reference page. 
  • Badry, A., Saleh, M., Sarhan, M.M.H., Younes, M., & Ythier, E. 2023. A new species of Leiurus Ehrenberg (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Sinai, Egypt and comments on its relationships with L. quinquestriatus and L. hebraeus using morphological and molecular evidence. Faunitaxys 11(54): 1–10. Reference page. 

2024

2025