Isometrus maculatus

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Lesser Brown Scorpion, Isometrus maculatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Scorpiones
Family: Buthidae
Genus: Isometrus
Species: I. maculatus
Binomial name
Isometrus maculatus
(DeGeer, 1778)

Isometrus maculatus is a species of scorpion in the Buthidae family, commonly called in English the 'Lesser Brown Scorpion'.[1] Its distribution is pantropical; it is an introduced species in Hawai'i.[1]

References

  • De Geer, 1778 : Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Insectes: bibliothèque du muséum d'histoire naturelle cinquième mémoire. Des scorpions et fauxscorpions. Stockholm, vol. 7, p. 325-350.
  1. 1.0 1.1 U. of Hawaii Extension EXTension ENTOmology & UH-CTAHR Integrated Pest Management Program Knowledge Master, accessed 8/2013 http://www.extento.hawaii.edu/kbase/urban/site/scorp.htm
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