Rhopalurus

Rhopalurus
Rhopalurus laticauda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Scorpiones
Family:	Buthidae
Genus:	Rhopalurus

Rhopalurus is a genus of scorpions belonging to the Buthidae family. This genus was described in 1876 by Tord Thorell. ^[1]

Distribution

Rhopalurus is primarily distibuted in the Cerrados and Caatingas formations of central and northeastern Brazil. One species is also known from a savannah formation inside oriental Amazonia. ^[2] Three species are known from the savannahs of the Guayana Region, Venezuela. One species is also found in the Llanos de Orinoco, Venezuela, and one in the Llanos Orientales, Colombia ^{[3] [4]}

Species

The following species are assigned to this genus: ^[5]

• Rhopalurus acromelas Lutz & Mello, 1922
• Rhopalurus amazonicus Lourenço, 1986
• Rhopalurus bonetti Armas, 1999
• Rhopalurus borellii Pocock, 1902
• Rhopalurus brejo Lourenço, 2014
• Rhopalurus caribensis Teruel & Roncallo, 2008
• Rhopalurus crassicauda Di Caporiacco, 1947
• Rhopalurus danieli Prado & Rios-Patino, 1940
• Rhopalurus dorsomaculatus Prado, 1938
• Rhopalurus goiasensis Prado, 1940
• Rhopalurus iglesiasi Werner, 1927
• Rhopalurus lambdophorus Mello-Leitão, 1932
• Rhopalurus laticauda Thorell, 1876
• Rhopalurus melleipalpus Lutz & Mello, 1922
• Rhopalurus ochoai Esposito, Yamaguti, Souza, Pinto da Rocha & Prendini, 2017
• Rhopalurus piceus Lourenço & Pinto-da-Rocha, 1997
• Rhopalurus renelauerae Lourenço, 2016
• Rhopalurus rochai Borelli, 1910
• Rhopalurus virkkii Santiago-Blay, 2009

Former species

• Rhopalurus junceus - moved to Heteroctenus junceus

References

1. Thorell, T. (January 1876). "I.— On the classification of Scorpions". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 17 (97): 1–15. doi:10.1080/00222937608681889. ISSN   0374-5481.
2. Lourenço, Wilson (2016-01-06). "The geographic pattern of distribution of the genus Rhopalurus Thorell, 1876 in the Guayana-Amazon region (Scorpiones: Buthidae)". Euscorpius. 2008 (73): 1–14. doi:10.18590/euscorpius.2008.vol2008.iss73.1. ISSN   1536-9307.
3. Lourenço, Wilson (1986). "Biogéographie et phylogénie des scorpions du genre Rhopalurus Thorell, 1876 (Scorpiones, Buthidae)" (PDF). Mémoires de la Société Royale Belge d'Entomologie. 33: 129–137.
4. Teruel, Rolando; Roncallo, César (2016-01-06). "Rare or poorly known scorpions from Colombia. III. On the taxonomy and distribution of Rhopalurus laticauda Thorell, 1876 (Scorpiones: Buthidae), with description of a new species of the genus". Euscorpius. 2008 (68): 1–12. doi:10.18590/euscorpius.2008.vol2008.iss68.1. ISSN   1536-9307.
5. "Rhopalurus Thorell, 1876". Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 12 January 2026.