| Scorpionidae | |
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| Srilankametrus indus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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
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
- Jordanius Afifeh, Yagmur, Al-Saraireh & Amr, 2024 [3]
- 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
- Reginald Innes Pocock (1893). "Arizona Scorpions Species".
- Rein, Jan Ove (2022). "SCORPIONIDAE Latreille, 1802". The Scorpion Files. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- Abu Afifeh, B., Yağmur, E. A., Al–Saraireh, M., & Amr, Z. 2024 . Revision of the genus Scorpio in Jordan, with a description of a new genus and three new species (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae). Euscorpius, No. 391: 1-66