Scorpio (genus)

Scorpio
Scorpio maurus palmatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Scorpiones
Family:	Scorpionidae
Genus:	Scorpio Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Scorpio maurus Linnaeus, 1758 [1]

Scorpio is a genus of scorpions belonging to the family Scorpionidae. The species in this genus are found in northern Africa and western Asia. ^[1]

Species

Scorpio was regarded as a monotypic genus for a long time, containing one widespread and highly variable species, S. maurus, which had many subspecies. It has since been recognised that within S. maurus sensu lato there were a number of taxa which should be regarded as valid species and new species have been described from sub-Saharan Africa: ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

The genus Scorpio includes: ^[6]

• Scorpio atakor Ythier, Sadine, Bengaid & Lourenço, 2024
• Scorpio atlasensis Khammassi, Harris & Sadine, 2023
• Scorpio birulai Fet, 1997
• Scorpio ennedi Lourenço, Duhem & Cloudsley-Thompson, 2012
• Scorpio fuliginosus (Pallary, 1928)
• Scorpio fuscus (Ehrenberg, 1829)
• Scorpio hesperus Birula, 1910
• Scorpio iznassen Ythier & Francois, 2023
• Scorpio jordanensis Afifeh, Yagmur, Al-Saraireh & Amr, 2024
• Scorpio karakurti Yagmur, 2024
• Scorpio kruglovi Birula, 1910
• Scorpio maurus Linnaeus, 1758

• Scorpio maurus arabicus (Pocock, 1900)
• Scorpio maurus behringsi Schenkel, 1949 [Nomen dubium]
• Scorpio maurus maurus Linnaeus, 1758
• Scorpio maurus stemmleri Schenkel, 1949 [Nomen dubium]
• Scorpio maurus towsendi (Pocock, 1900)

• Scorpio mogadorensis Birula, 1910
• Scorpio moulouya Ythier & Francois, 2023
• Scorpio niger Lourenço & Cloudsley-Thompson, 2012
• Scorpio occidentalis Werner, 1936
• Scorpio palmatus (Ehrenberg, 1828)
• Scorpio propinquus (Simon, 1872) [Nomen dubium]
• Scorpio punicus Fet, 2000
• Scorpio savanicola Lourenço, 2009
• Scorpio sirnakensis Yagmur, 2024
• Scorpio sudanensis Lourenço & Cloudsley-Thompson, 2009
• Scorpio tassili Lourenço & Rossi, 2016
• Scorpio touili Ythier & Francois, 2023
• Scorpio trarasensis Bouisset & Larrouy, 1962
• Scorpio wahbehi Afifeh, Yagmur, Al-Saraireh & Amr, 2024
• Scorpio weidholzi Werner, 1929
• Scorpio yemenensis Werner, 1936

References

1. Fet, Victor; Sissom, W. David; Lowe, Graeme; and Braunwalder, Matt E. (2000). "Scorpionidae". Catalog of the Scorpions of the World (1758-1998). New York Entomological Society.
2. "A new species of Scorpio from Niger". The Scorpion Files. 3 October 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
3. Wilson R. Lourenço; John L. Cloudsley-Thompson (2012). "About the enigmatic presence of the genus Scorpio Linnaeus, 1758 in Congo with the description of a new species from Niger (Scorpiones, Scorpionidae)". Serket. 13 (1/2): 1–7.
4. Wilson R. Lourenço (2009). "Reanalysis of the genus Scorpio Linnaeus 1758 in sub-Saharan Africa and description of one new species from Cameroon (Scorpiones, Scorpionidae)" (PDF). Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg. 15 (181): 99–113.
5. Stav Talal; Itay Tesler; Jaim Sivan; Rachel Ben-Shlomo; H Muhammad Tahir; Lorenzo Prendini; Sagi Snir; Eran Gefen (15 May 2015). "Scorpion speciation in the Holy Land: Multilocus phylogeography corroborates diagnostic differences in morphology and burrowing behavior among Scorpio subspecies and justifies recognition as phylogenetic, ecological and biological species". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 91: 226–237. doi:10.1016/J.YMPEV.2015.04.028. ISSN   1055-7903. PMID   25987530. Wikidata   Q35634805.
6. "The Scorpion files - Scorpionidae". www.ntnu.no. Retrieved 2025-03-29.