Biology:Chaerilus
Chaerilus | |
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Chaerilus pseudoconchiformus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Scorpiones |
Family: | Chaerilidae |
Genus: | Chaerilus Simon, 1877 |
Diversity | |
46 species | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Chaerilus is a genus of scorpions in the family Chaerilidae.[1] They live in tropical parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia.[2] A fossil genus Electrochaerilus is known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber.
Description
Total length is 15 to 75.4 mm. Orthobothriotaxy is type B. Pedipalp patella with 3 ventral trichobothria and pedipalp femur with 9 trichobothria. Ventral edge of cheliceral movable finger is crenulated. Ventrum of cheliceral fixed finger with denticle. Hemisperatophore fusiform. Pedipalp chela exhibits "8-carinae" configuration. Fifth metasomal segment consists with a single ventral carina. Legs are without tibial spurs. However prolateral and retrolateral pedal have spurs. Telson is without a subaculear tubercle.[3]
Species
It contains the following species:[4]
- Chaerilus agilis Pocock, 1899
- Chaerilus andamanensis Lourenço, Duhem & Leguin, 2011
- Chaerilus annapurna Lourenço & Duhem, 2010
- Chaerilus anneae Lourenço, 2012
- Chaerilus assamensis Kraepelin, 1913
- Chaerilus borneensis Simon, 1880
- Chaerilus cavernicola Pocock, 1894
- Chaerilus celebensis Pocock, 1894
- Chaerilus ceylonensis Pocock, 1894
- Chaerilus chapmani Vachon & Lourenço, 1985
- Chaerilus cimrmani Kovařík, 2012
- Chaerilus conchiformus Zhu, Han & Lourenço, 2008
- Chaerilus dibangvalleycus Bastawade, 2006
- Chaerilus granulatus Kovarík, Lowe, Hoferek, Forman & Král, 2015
- Chaerilus hofereki Kovarik, Kral, Korinkova & Lerma, 2014
- Chaerilus insignis Pocock, 1894
- Chaerilus julietteae Lourenço, 2011
- Chaerilus kampuchea Lourenço, 2012
- Chaerilus laevimanus Pocock, 1899
- Chaerilus laoticus Lourenço & Zhu, 2008
- Chaerilus lehtrarensis Khatoon, 1999
- Chaerilus longimanus Kovarík, Lowe, Hoferek, Forman & Král, 2015
- Chaerilus mainlingensis Di & Zhu, 2009
- Chaerilus petrzelkai Kovařík, 2000
- Chaerilus ojangureni Kovařík, 2005
- Chaerilus phami Lourenço, 2011
- Chaerilus philippinus Lourenço & Ythier, 2008
- Chaerilus pictus (Pocock, 1890)
- Chaerilus rectimanus Pocock, 1899
- Chaerilus robinsoni Hirst, 1911
- Chaerilus sabinae Lourenço, 1995
- Chaerilus seiteri Kovařík, 2012
- Chaerilus sejnai Kovařík, 2005
- Chaerilus solegladi Kovařík, 2012
- Chaerilus spinatus Lourenço & Duhem, 2010
- Chaerilus telnovi Lourenço, 2009
- Chaerilus terueli Kovařík, 2012
- Chaerilus tessellatus Qi, Zhu & Lourenço, 2005
- Chaerilus thai Lourenço, Sun & Zhu, 2010
- Chaerilus tichyi Kovařík, 2000
- Chaerilus tricostatus Pocock, 1899
- Chaerilus truncatus Karsch, 1879
- Chaerilus tryznai Kovařík, 2000
- Chaerilus variegatus Simon, 1877
- Chaerilus vietnamicus Lourenço & Zhu, 2008
- Chaerilus wrzecionkoi Kovařík, 2012
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Chaerilus". Species. GBIF. http://www.gbif.org/species/4303014.
- ↑ Jonathan A. Coddington; Gonzalo Giribet; Mark S. Harvey; Lorenzo Prendini; David E. Walter (2004). "Arachnida". Assembling the Tree of Life. Oxford University Press. pp. 296–318. ISBN 9780195172348. https://books.google.com/books?id=6lXTP0YU6_kC&pg=PA309.
- ↑ Charles University; Kovařík, František; Lowe, Graeme; Monell Chemical Senses Center; Ranawana, Kithsiri B.; University of Peradeniya; Hoferek, David; Jayarathne, V. A. Sanjeewa et al. (2016). "Scorpions of Sri Lanka (Scorpiones: Buthidae, Chaerilidae, Scorpionidae) with description of four new species of the genera Charmus Karsch, 1879 and Reddyanus Vachon, 1972, stat. n". Euscorpius 2016 (220): 1–133. doi:10.18590/euscorpius.2016.vol2016.iss220.1. https://mds.marshall.edu/euscorpius/vol2016/iss220/1/. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
- ↑ Jan Ove Rein (December 29, 2015). "Chaerilidae Pocock, 1893". The Scorpion Files. http://www.ntnu.no/ub/scorpion-files/chaerilidae.php.
Wikidata ☰ Q660844 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaerilus.
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