Chaerilus

Chaerilus Temporal range: Cretaceous–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Chaerilus pseudoconchiformus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Scorpiones
Family:	Chaerilidae
Genus:	Chaerilus Simon, 1877
Diversity
46 species
Synonyms [1]
ChaerilusSimon, 1877 ChelomachusThorell, 1889 UromachusPocock, 1890

Chaerilus is a genus of scorpions in the family Chaerilidae. ^[1] They live in tropical parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. ^[2] A fossil genus Electrochaerilus is known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber.

Description

Total length is 15 to 75.4 mm. ^[3]

Species

It contains the following species: ^[4]

• Chaerilus agilis Pocock, 1899
• Chaerilus andamanensis Lourenço, Duhem & Leguin, 2011
• Chaerilus annapurna Lourenço & Duhem, 2010
• Chaerilus anneae Lourenço, 2012
• Chaerilus assamensis Kraepelin, 1913
• Chaerilus borneensis Simon, 1880
• Chaerilus cavernicola Pocock, 1894
• Chaerilus celebensis Pocock, 1894
• Chaerilus ceylonensis Pocock, 1894
• Chaerilus chapmani Vachon & Lourenço, 1985
• Chaerilus cimrmani Kovařík, 2012
• Chaerilus conchiformus Zhu, Han & Lourenço, 2008
• Chaerilus dibangvalleycus Bastawade, 2006
• Chaerilus granulatus Kovarík, Lowe, Hoferek, Forman & Král, 2015
• Chaerilus hofereki Kovarik, Kral, Korinkova & Lerma, 2014
• Chaerilus insignis Pocock, 1894
• Chaerilus julietteae Lourenço, 2011
• Chaerilus kampuchea Lourenço, 2012
• Chaerilus laevimanus Pocock, 1899
• Chaerilus laoticus Lourenço & Zhu, 2008
• Chaerilus lehtrarensis Khatoon, 1999
• Chaerilus longimanus Kovarík, Lowe, Hoferek, Forman & Král, 2015
• Chaerilus mainlingensis Di & Zhu, 2009
• Chaerilus petrzelkai Kovařík, 2000
• Chaerilus ojangureni Kovařík, 2005
• Chaerilus phami Lourenço, 2011
• Chaerilus philippinus Lourenço & Ythier, 2008
• Chaerilus pictus (Pocock, 1890)
• Chaerilus rectimanus Pocock, 1899
• Chaerilus robinsoni Hirst, 1911
• Chaerilus sabinae Lourenço, 1995
• Chaerilus seiteri Kovařík, 2012
• Chaerilus sejnai Kovařík, 2005
• Chaerilus solegladi Kovařík, 2012
• Chaerilus spinatus Lourenço & Duhem, 2010
• Chaerilus telnovi Lourenço, 2009
• Chaerilus terueli Kovařík, 2012
• Chaerilus tessellatus Qi, Zhu & Lourenço, 2005
• Chaerilus thai Lourenço, Sun & Zhu, 2010
• Chaerilus tichyi Kovařík, 2000
• Chaerilus tricostatus Pocock, 1899
• Chaerilus truncatus Karsch, 1879
• Chaerilus tryznai Kovařík, 2000
• Chaerilus variegatus Simon, 1877
• Chaerilus vietnamicus Lourenço & Zhu, 2008
• Chaerilus wrzecionkoi Kovařík, 2012

See also

• Ctri9577

References

1. "Chaerilus". Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 5 October 2021.
2. 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.
3. 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. 2016 (220): 1–133. doi: 10.18590/euscorpius.2016.vol2016.iss220.1 . Retrieved 2021-08-29.
4. Jan Ove Rein (December 29, 2015). "Chaerilidae Pocock, 1893". The Scorpion Files. Retrieved December 29, 2015.