Smeringurus

Smeringurus is a small genus of scorpions native to Mexico and the southwestern United States within the family Vaejovidae.[1][2] It is closely related to the genus Paruroctonus, of which it was formerly considered a subgenus.[3][4]

Smeringurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Scorpiones
Family: Vaejovidae
Genus: Smeringurus
Species

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Species

List according to The Scorpion Files:[5]

  • Smeringurus aridus (Soleglad, 1972)
  • Smeringurus grandis (Williams, 1970)
  • Smeringurus mesaensis (Stahnke, 1957)
  • Smeringurus vachoni (Stahnke, 1961)
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References
  1. Soleglad, Michael E.; Fet, Victor. "Contributions to Scorpion Systematics. III. Subfamilies Smeringurinae and Syntropinae (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae)" (PDF). Marshall University. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
  2. Jean-Luc E. Cartron; Gerardo Ceballos; Richard Stephen Felger (25 August 2005). Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Conservation in Northern Mexico. Oxford University Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-19-534812-5.
  3. Haradon (1983). "Smeringurus, a new subgenus of Paruroctonus Werner (Scorpiones, Vaejovidae)". Journal of Arachnology: 251–270.
  4. Merrett, Norman I. Platnick. Ed. by P. (1997). Advances in spider taxonomy : 1992-1995 ; with redescriptions 1940-1980. New York: The New York Entomology Society. ISBN 9780913424247. Smeringurus has been treated as a separate genus (Stockwell, 1992), without data for justification beyond that provided originally by Haradon. We feel that the situation requires further study, but have listed Smeringurus as a separate genus here.
  5. http://www.ntnu.no/ub/scorpion-files/vaejovidae.php


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