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Centruroides limbatus from the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica. Centruroides is a genus of scorpions of the family Buthidae.Several North American species are known by the common vernacular name bark scorpion.
Centruroides suffusus, sometimes referred to as the Durango Scorpion or the Mexican scorpion, is a species of scorpion in the family Buthidae. [1] Centruroides suffusus is the most predominant and venomous species of scorpions in the city of Durango, Mexico. [2] Because of this, their venom is used for multiple research purposes.
Lychas marmoreus, also known as the marbled scorpion, little marbled scorpion or bark scorpion, is a species of small scorpion in the Buthidae family. It is native to Australia , and was first described in 1845 by German arachnologist Carl Ludwig Koch .
Centruroides hentzi, the Hentz striped scorpion, is a species of bark scorpion in the family Buthidae. They are native to the southeastern United States including the states of Florida , southwestern Alabama , and in the coastal plain of Southern Georgia including surrounding barrier islands. [ 1 ]
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]
The Baja California bark scorpion is a scorpion that belongs to the Centruroides genus and exilicauda species and is one of the 529 species of scorpions around today and one of the 41 bark species of scorpions. [4] [5] They are native to the Western parts of North America, including Baja California, California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Isometrus maculatus, commonly as the lesser brown scorpion, is a species of scorpion in the family Buthidae. [2] Its distribution is pantropical; it is an introduced species in Hawaii . [ 2 ]