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Scorpionidae

Summary

Scorpionidae is a family of burrowing scorpions or pale-legged scorpions in the superfamily Scorpionoidea. The family was established by Pierre André Latreille, 1802.

Scorpionidae
Srilankametrus indus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Scorpiones
Superfamily: Scorpionoidea
Family: Scorpionidae
Latreille, 1802
Subfamilies
  • Diplocentrinae
  • Rugodentinae
  • Scorpioninae
  • Urodacinae[1]

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 edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Diplocentrinae.
  1. ^ Reginald Innes Pocock (1893). "Arizona Scorpions Species".
  2. ^ Rein, Jan Ove (2022). "SCORPIONIDAE Latreille, 1802". The Scorpion Files. Retrieved 10 April 2022.