Buthoidea Temporal range: | |
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Odonturus dentatus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Scorpiones |
Parvorder: | Buthida Soleglad and Fet, 2003 |
Superfamily: | Buthoidea C. L. Koch, 1837 |
Families | |
Buthoidea is the largest superfamily of scorpions. Its members are known as fat-tailed scorpions and bark scorpions. A few very large genera ( Ananteris , Centruroides , Compsobuthus , or Tityus ) are known, but a high number of species-poor or monotypic ones also exist. [1] They occur in the warmer parts of every major landmass on Earth, except on New Zealand. [1] The superfamily was established by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1837. [1]
Five families are placed into Buthoidea, two extant families Buthidae and Microcharmidae, plus three extinct families.