Chaerilus

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Chaerilus
Temporal range: Cretaceous–present
Chaerilus pseudoconchiformus male.jpg
Chaerilus pseudoconchiformus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Scorpiones
Family: Chaerilidae
Genus: Chaerilus
Simon, 1877
Type species
Chaerilus variegatus [1]
Simon, 1877
Diversity
59 species
Synonyms [2]
  • ChaerilusSimon, 1877
  • ChelomachusThorell, 1889
  • UromachusPocock, 1890

Chaerilus is a genus of scorpions in the family Chaerilidae. [2] They live in tropical parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. [3] A fossil genus Electrochaerilus is known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber.

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Description

Total length is 15 to 75.4 mm. [1]

Species

It contains the following species: [4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Kovařík, František; Lowe, Graeme; Ranawana, Kithsiri B.; Hoferek, David; Jayarathne, V. A. Sanjeewa; Plíšková, Jana; Šťáhlavský, František (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. 2016 (220): 1–133. doi: 10.18590/euscorpius.2016.vol2016.iss220.1 .
  2. 1 2 "Chaerilus". Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  3. ↑ Jonathan A. Coddington; Gonzalo Giribet; Mark S. Harvey; Lorenzo Prendini; David E. Walter (2004). "Arachnida". In Joel Cracraft; Michael J. Donoghue (eds.). Assembling the Tree of Life. Oxford University Press. pp. 296–318. ISBN   9780195172348.
  4. ↑ Jan Ove Rein (2025). "Chaerilidae Pocock, 1893". The Scorpion Files. Retrieved 3 November 2025.


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