Scorpio (genus)
| Scorpio | |
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| Scorpio maurus palmatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Scorpiones |
| Family: | Scorpionidae |
| Genus: | Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Type species | |
| Scorpio maurus Linnaeus, 1758[1]
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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
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- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "A new species of Scorpio from Niger". The Scorpion Files. 3 October 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The Scorpion files - Scorpionidae". www.ntnu.no. Retrieved 2025-03-29.