Paruroctonus

Paruroctonus

Paruroctonus silvestrii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Scorpiones
Family:	Vaejovidae
Genus:	Paruroctonus Werner, 1934

Paruroctonus is a genus of scorpions in the family Vaejovidae. There are about 10 described species in Paruroctonus.^[1]

Species

Paruroctonus becki (Gertsch & Allred, 1965)
Paruroctonus boreus (northern scorpion)
Paruroctonus conclusus Jain, Forbes & Esposito, 2022
Paruroctonus gracilior (Hoffmann, 1931) (Chihuahuan slender-tailed scorpion)
Paruroctonus luteolus (golden dwarf sand scorpion)
Paruroctonus pecos (Sissom & Francke, 1981)
Paruroctonus silvestrii (California common scorpion)
Paruroctonus soda Jain, Forbes & Esposito, 2022
Paruroctonus tulare Jain et al., 2023
Paruroctonus utahensis (Williams, 1968) (eastern sand scorpion)
Paruroctonus variabilis Hjelle, 1982

References

^ "Paruroctonus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-03.

Ayrey R, Webber M (2013). "A new Vaejovis C.L. Koch, 1836, the second known vorhiesi group species from the Santa Catalina Mountains of Arizona (Scorpiones, Vaejovidae)". ZooKeys 270: 21–35.

Taxon identifiers
Paruroctonus	Wikidata: Q3367031 Wikispecies: Paruroctonus BioLib: 132655 BOLD: 657108 BugGuide: 16669 CoL: 6J9V EoL: 3195548 GBIF: 4656447 iNaturalist: 56811 IRMNG: 1369687 NCBI: 88318 Open Tree of Life: 964150

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