Isometrus

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Isometrus
Isometrus maculatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Chelicerata
Order: Scorpiones
Family: Buthidae
Genus: Isometrus
Leach, 1815
Synonyms
  • Reddyanus Vachon, 1972
  • Closotrichus Tikader & Bastawade, 1983

Isometrus is a genus of scorpion belonging and being eponymous to the family Buthidae.

Distribution

The species of this genus are found in south and southeast Asia and in Oceania, with the exception of Isometrus maculatus which is pantropical.

Species

References

  • Ehrenberg, 1828 : Arachnoidea, Scorpiones. in Hemprich & Ehrenberg, Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones animalium evertebratorum sepositis insectis quae ex itinere per Africanum borealem et Asiam occidentalem. Friderici Guielmi Hemprich et Christiani Godofredi Ehrenberg, studio novae aut illustratae redierunt. Percensuit editit Dr. C.G. Ehrehberg. Decas I. Berolini ex officina Academica, venditur a Mittlero, Berlin.
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