Alpiscorpius

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Alpiscorpius
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Scorpiones
Family: Euscorpiidae
Genus: Alpiscorpius
Gantenbein et al., 1999

Alpiscorpius is a genus of scorpions in the family Euscorpiidae that was first described by Benjamin Gantenbein, Victor Fet, Carlo Largiader & Adolf Scholl in 1999. [1]

Species

Alpiscorpius contains the following twenty species: [2]

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References

  1. Gantenbein, Benjamin; Fet, Victor; Largiader, Carlo; Scholl, Adolf (1999). "First DNA phylogeny of Euscorpius Thorell, 1876 (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) and its bearing on taxonomy and biogeography of this genus". Biogeographica. 75 (2): 49–65. ISSN   1165-6638.
  2. Rein, Jan Ove (2022). "Euscorpiidae Laurie, 1896". The Scorpion Files. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
  3. Podnar, Martina; Tvrtković, Nikola; Vuković, Marijana; Rebrina, Fran; Grbac, Irena; Hörweg, Christoph (2022-12-30). "Alpiscorpius liburnicus sp. n. with a note on the "Alpiscorpius croaticus group" (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) in Croatia". Natura Croatica: Periodicum Musei Historiae Naturalis Croatici. 31 (2): 265–282. doi: 10.20302/NC.2022.31.19 . ISSN   1330-0520. S2CID   256182334.