Diplocentridae

Diplocentridae is a family of scorpions. The roughly 120 species are mostly native to the New World, except for genus Nebo, which is distributed in the Middle East.[1]

Diplocentridae
Temporal range:
Museum specimen of Nebo hierichonticus from Israel
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Scorpiones
Family: Diplocentridae
Karsch, 1880
Genera

about 9, see text

A 2003 study suggests that this family is better treated as a subfamily of the Scorpionidae.[2]

Taxa include:

  • Subfamily Diplocentrinae Karsch, 1880
    • Bioculus Stahnke, 1968
    • Cazierius Francke, 1978
    • Didymocentrus Kraepelin, 1905
    • Diplocentrus Peters, 1861
    • Heteronebo Pocock, 1899
    • Kolotl Santibáñez-López, et al., 2014[1]
    • Oiclus Simon, 1880
    • Tarsoporosus Francke, 1978
  • Subfamily Nebinae Kraepelin, 1905

References
  1. Santibáñez-López, C. E.; Francke, O. F.; and Prendini, L. (2014). Kolotl, n. gen. (Scorpiones: Diplocentridae), a new scorpion genus from Mexico. American Museum Novitates 3815 1-28.
  2. Soleglad, M. E., & Fet, V. 2003. High-level systematics and phylogeny of the extant scorpions (Scorpiones: Orthosterni). Euscorpius, 11 1-56.


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