Biology:Rhopalurus
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Rhopalurus is a genus of scorpions belonging to the Buthidae family. This genus was described in 1876 by Tord Thorell.[1]
Distribution
Rhopalurus is primarily distibuted in the Cerrados and Caatingas formations of central and northeastern Brazil. One species is also known from a savannah formation inside oriental Amazonia.[2] Three species are known from the savannahs of the Guayana Region, Venezuela. One species is also found in the Llanos de Orinoco, Venezuela, and one in the Llanos Orientales, Colombia[3][4]
Species
The following species are assigned to this genus:[5]
- Rhopalurus melleipalpus Lutz & Mello, 1922
- Santiago-Blay, 2009 Rhopalurus amazonicus
- Lourenço, 1986 Rhopalurus bonetti
- Armas, 1999 Rhopalurus borellii
- Pocock, 1902 Lourenço, 2014
- Teruel & Roncallo, 2008 Di Caporiacco, 1947
- Prado & Rios-Patino, 1940 Prado, 1940
- Mello-Leitão, 1932 Lutz & Mello, 1922
- Lourenço & Pinto-da-Rocha, 1997 Rhopalurus renelauerae
- Rhopalurus dorsomaculatus Rhopalurus iglesiasi
- Rhopalurus laticauda Rhopalurus ochoai
- Lourenço, 2016 Rhopalurus brejo
- Rhopalurus caribensis Rhopalurus crassicauda
- Rhopalurus danieli Prado, 1938
- Werner, 1927 Thorell, 1876
- Esposito, Yamaguti, Souza, Pinto da Rocha & Prendini, 2017 Borelli, 1910
- Rhopalurus virkkii Rhopalurus rochai
- Rhopalurus acromelas Rhopalurus goiasensis
- Rhopalurus lambdophorus Rhopalurus piceus
Former species
- Rhopalurus junceus - moved to Heteroctenus junceus
References
- ↑ Thorell, T. (January 1876). "I.— On the classification of Scorpions" (in en). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 17 (97): 1–15. doi:10.1080/00222937608681889. ISSN 0374-5481. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00222937608681889.
- ↑ Lourenço, Wilson (2016-01-06). "The geographic pattern of distribution of the genus Rhopalurus Thorell, 1876 in the Guayana-Amazon region (Scorpiones: Buthidae)". Euscorpius 2008 (73): 1–14. doi:10.18590/euscorpius.2008.vol2008.iss73.1. ISSN 1536-9307. https://mds.marshall.edu/euscorpius/vol2008/iss73/1.
- ↑ Lourenço, Wilson (1986). "Biogéographie et phylogénie des scorpions du genre Rhopalurus Thorell, 1876 (Scorpiones, Buthidae).". Mémoires de la Société Royale Belge d'Entomologie 33: 129-137. https://www.european-arachnology.org/esa/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/129-137_Lourenco.pdf.
- ↑ Teruel, Rolando; Roncallo, César (2016-01-06). "Rare or poorly known scorpions from Colombia. III. On the taxonomy and distribution of Rhopalurus laticauda Thorell, 1876 (Scorpiones: Buthidae), with description of a new species of the genus". Euscorpius 2008 (68): 1–12. doi:10.18590/euscorpius.2008.vol2008.iss68.1. ISSN 1536-9307. https://mds.marshall.edu/euscorpius/vol2008/iss68/1.
- ↑ "Rhopalurus Thorell, 1876". Species. GBIF. http://www.gbif.org/species/4656168.
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