Abstract
Androctonus australis (Linnaeus, 1758) is one of the most abundant scorpions in North Africa. The high phenotypic variability, such as color variations relating to these scorpions, led different authors to classify several different subspecies. Furthermore, Lourenço (2005) reported that A. australis is a unique species that presents a certain degree of polymorphism. The present study was carried out in the Northern Algerian Sahara and aims to investigate the effect of the region on the morphometric variability of A. australis based on body measurements (total length, cephalothorax length, abdomen length and tail length) of 10 individuals of both sexes from the three localities: El-Oued, Ouargla and Ghardaïa. Our results show that despite the large difference in size of the specimens studied and coloration and the significant correlation exists between the different parts of the scorpion body, the stations do not have a significant effect on the morphological variation of A. australis.
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