Buthoscorpio

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Buthoscorpio
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Scorpiones
Family: Buthidae
Genus: Buthoscorpio
Type species
Buthoscorpio sarasinorum
(Karsch, 1891)
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • StenochirusKarsch, 1891 (nec. Stenochirus Oppel, 1861) [1]

Buthoscorpio is a genus of scorpions in the family Buthidae. [2]

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Taxonomy

Distribution

Species of this genus are found in India and Sri Lanka. [4]

Description

Total length of the scorpion ranges from 30 to 52 mm. Sternum type 1 is subpentagonal or subtriangular and long, which exhibits horizontal compression. Pedipalps consists with tri-chobothrial pattern. Cheliceral fixed finger is with two ventral accessory denticles. Movable finger of pedipalp chela is longer than manus. Pectines are covered with fulcra. Tergites I to VI are smooth or finely granular, with one carina. Carapace smooth to finely granular without carinae. But, metasomal segments are punctate, without stridulatory areas. Telson vesicle is punctate, whereas subaculear tooth is absent or weakly developed. Pedipalps, metasoma and telson are glabrous. [5]

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References

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  2. ↑ Lourenço, Wilson. FURTHER TAXONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS ON THE GENUS BUTHOSCORPIO WERNER, 1936 (SCORPIONES, BUTHIDAE), WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES FROM INDIA. ()
  3. ↑ Amir, Rafat, Syed Kamaluddin & Afshan Jabbar. 2005. Two new species of the genus Stenochirus Karsch (Arachnida: Scorpionida: Buthidae) from Pakistan with their relationship, chromatography and electrophoresis of venom. International Journal of Biology & Biotechnology 2: 531-540.
  4. ↑ Fet, Sissom, Lowe & Braunwalder, 2000 : Catalog of the Scorpions of the World (1758-1998). New York Entomological Society, p. 1-690.
  5. ↑ Charles University; Kovařík, František; Lowe, Graeme; Monell Chemical Senses Center; Ranawana, Kithsiri B.; University of Peradeniya; Hoferek, David; Jayarathne, V. A. Sanjeewa; University of Peradeniya (2016). "Scorpions of Sri Lanka (Scorpiones: Buthidae, Chaerilidae, Scorpionidae) with description of four new species of the genera Charmus Karsch, 1879 and Reddyanus Vachon, 1972, stat. n". Euscorpius. pp. 1–133. doi:10.18590/euscorpius.2016.vol2016.iss220.1 . Retrieved 2021-08-29.


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