Scorpionidae
Appearance
Scorpionidae | |
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Srilankametrus indus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Scorpiones |
Superfamily: | Scorpionoidea |
Family: | Scorpionidae Latreille, 1802 |
Subfamilies | |
Scorpionidae is a family of burrowing scorpions or pale-legged scorpions in the superfamily Scorpionoidea. The family was established by Pierre André Latreille, 1802.
Genera
[edit]Scorpionidae contains the following genera:[2]
- Aops Volschenk & Prendini, 2008
- Chersonesometrus Couzijn, 1978
- Deccanometrus Prendini & Loria, 2020
- Gigantometrus Couzijn, 1978
- Heterometrus Ehrenberg, 1828
- Javanimetrus Couzijn, 1978
- Opistophthalmus C. L. Koch, 1837
- Pandiborellius Rossi, 2015
- Pandinoides Fet, 1997
- Pandinops Birula, 1913
- Pandinopsis Vachon, 1974
- Pandinurus Fet, 1997
- Pandinus Thorell, 1876
- Pandipalpus Rossi, 2015
- Sahyadrimetrus Prendini & Loria, 2020
- Scorpio Linnaeus, 1758
- Srilankametrus Couzijn, 1981
References
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- ^ Reginald Innes Pocock (1893). "Arizona Scorpions Species".
- ^ Rein, Jan Ove (2022). "SCORPIONIDAE Latreille, 1802". The Scorpion Files. Retrieved 10 April 2022.