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In Greek mythology, Artemis or Gaia sent a giant scorpion to kill the hunter Orion, who had said he would kill all the world's animals. Orion and the scorpion both became constellations; as enemies they were placed on opposite sides of the world, so when one rises in the sky, the other sets.
The Buthidae are the largest family of scorpions, containing about 100 genera and 1339 species as of 2022. [2] A few very large genera (Ananteris, Centruroides, Compsobuthus, or Tityus) are known, but a high number of species-poor or monotypic ones also exist. [2] New taxa are being described at a rate of several new species per year. [2]
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]
The taxonomy of scorpions deals with the classification of this predatory arthropod into 13 extant families and about 1,400 described species and subspecies. In addition, 111 described taxa of extinct scorpions are known.
Eoscorpius is an extinct genus of scorpions.Several species have been formally described and named, while several other proposed species lack formal scientific names.The genus existed from the Carboniferous to the early Permian, its distribution spanning modern-day Asia, North America, and Europe.
The emperor scorpion (Pandinus imperator) is one of the largest species of scorpion in the world, with adults averaging about 20 centimetres (7.9 in) in length and a weight of 30 g. [2] However, some species of forest scorpions are fairly similar to the emperor scorpion in size, and one scorpion, Heterometrus swammerdami , holds the record for ...
It was only the second genus of scorpion as all species known to this date were included in the sole genus Scorpio Linné, 1758. Leach found Scorpio occitanus Amoreux, 1789 to differ from the other species of Scorpio known to him by having eight eyes (two median eyes and six lateral eyes) instead of six (two median eyes and four lateral eyes).
Tityus is a large genus of thick-tailed scorpions (family Buthidae), the namesake of its subfamily Tityinae.As of 2021, Tityus contains more than 220 described species distributed in Central America and South America, from Costa Rica to Argentina.