Scorpiops

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Scorpiops
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Scorpiops luridus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Scorpiones
Family: Scorpiopidae
Tribe: Scorpiopini
Genus: Scorpiops
Peters, 1861
Type species
Scorpio hardwickii [1]
Gervais, 1843
Diversity
115 species [2]
Synonyms
  • DasyscorpiopsVachon, 1974
  • AlloscorpiopsStockwell, 1989
  • PlethoscorpiopsLourenço, 2017

Scorpiops is a genus of scorpions in the family Scorpiopidae. It is distributed throughout much of Asia. [3] The taxonomy of the group is unclear because new species and subgenera are described often, and one subgroup may represent a species complex. [4]

Species

Scorpiops contains the following over one hundred species: [2]

References

  1. ↑ Kovařík, František; Šťáhlavský, František; Stockmann, Mark (2024). "Scorpiops tangae sp. n. (Scorpiones: Scorpiopidae) from Laos". Euscorpius. 2024 (399): 1–15.
  2. 1 2 Rein, Jan Ove (2025). "Scorpiopidae Kraepelin, 1905". The Scorpion Files. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
  3. ↑ Kovařík, František; Lowe, Graeme; Stockmann, Mark; Šťáhlavský, František (2020). "Revision of genus-group taxa in the family Scorpiopidae Kraepelin, 1905, with description of 15 new species (Arachnida: Scorpiones)". Euscorpius. 2020 (325): 1–140.
  4. ↑ Di, Z., et al. 2011. The first record of the family Euscorpiidae (Arachnida: Scorpiones) from Central China, with a key of Chinese species of the genus Scorpiops. Euscorpius 118.
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