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
- 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.
