Diplocentridae is a family of scorpions. The roughly 120 species are mostly native to the New World, except for genus Nebo, which is distributed in the Middle East.[1]
| Diplocentridae Temporal range:
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| Museum specimen of Nebo hierichonticus from Israel | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Scorpiones |
| Superfamily: | Scorpionoidea |
| Family: | Diplocentridae Karsch, 1880 |
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about 9, see text | |
A 2003 study suggests that this family is better treated as a subfamily of the Scorpionidae.[2]
Taxa include:
- Subfamily Diplocentrinae Karsch, 1880
- Bioculus Stahnke, 1968
- Cazierius Francke, 1978
- Didymocentrus Kraepelin, 1905
- Diplocentrus Peters, 1861
- Heteronebo Pocock, 1899
- Kolotl Santibáñez-López, et al., 2014[1]
- Oiclus Simon, 1880
- Tarsoporosus Francke, 1978
- Subfamily Nebinae Kraepelin, 1905
- Nebo Simon, 1878
References
edit- ^ a b Santibáñez-López, C. E.; Francke, O. F.; and Prendini, L. (2014). Kolotl, n. gen. (Scorpiones: Diplocentridae), a new scorpion genus from Mexico. American Museum Novitates 3815 1-28.
- ^ Soleglad, M. E., & Fet, V. 2003. High-level systematics and phylogeny of the extant scorpions (Scorpiones: Orthosterni). Euscorpius, 11 1-56.
External links
edit- Biolib
- Diplocentridae. Tree of Life.
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