Hemiscorpius

Hemiscorpius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Scorpiones
Family:	Hemiscorpiidae; Pocock, 1893
Genus:	Hemiscorpius; Peters, 1861
Synonyms
	Ischnuridae; Liochelidae

Hemiscorpius is the sole genus of the scorpion family Hemiscorpiidae, with about 16 described species. Before Hemiscorpiidae, the term used for the family was Ischnuridae, which had to be changed due to a naming conflict with the damselfly family of the same name. They at one point also held the name Liochelidae.^[1]

In 2015, research on the evolution, biogeography and phylogeny of the families Hormuridae, Hemiscorpiidae, and Heteroscorpionidae left Hemiscorpiidae with a single genus, Hemiscorpius, the remaining 15 merged or transferred to other families.^[2]

Description[]

Most species of Hemiscorpius have a very flat and broad body plan, due to their main habitat in tight rock crevices.^[1]

Distribution[]

Hemiscorpius is distributed throughout the Middle East and Indomalaya.^[1]

Human interaction[]

Hemiscorpius has a strong venom; especially that of can result in deadly accidents.^[3]

Species[]

These 17 species belong to the genus Hemiscorpius:^[4]

Monod & Lourenço, 2005
Pocock, 1899
Lourenço, 2011
Monod & Lourenço, 2005
Lowe, 2010
Loewe, 2010
(Vachon, 1974)
Simon, 1872
Karatas & Gharkheloo, 2013
Peters, 1861
Kraepelin, 1900
Kovarik & Mazuch, 2011
Birula, 1903
Kovarík & Navidpour, 2017
Pocock, 1899
Lourenço, 2011
Borelli, 1904

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Hemiscorpiidae". The Scorpion Files.
^ Monod, Lionel; Prendini, Lorenzo (2015). "Evidence for Eurogondwana: the roles of dispersal, extinction and vicariance in the evolution and biogeography of Indo-Pacific Hormuridae (Scorpiones: Scorpionoidea)" (PDF). Cladistics. 31. doi:10.1111/cla.12067.
^ Ghafourian, Mehri; Ganjalikhanhakemi, Neda; Hemmati, Ali Asghar; Dehghani, Rouhullah; et al. (2016). "The Effect of Hemiscorpius lepturus (Scorpionida: Hemiscorpiidae) Venom on Leukocytes and the Leukocyte Subgroups in Peripheral Blood of Rat". Journal of Arthropod-borne Diseases. 10 (2). PMC 4906755. PMID 27308274.
^ "Hemiscorpius". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-12-29.

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[scorpionfiles-1] "Hemiscorpiidae". The Scorpion Files.

[Monod2015-2] Monod, Lionel; Prendini, Lorenzo (2015). "Evidence for Eurogondwana: the roles of dispersal, extinction and vicariance in the evolution and biogeography of Indo-Pacific Hormuridae (Scorpiones: Scorpionoidea)" (PDF). Cladistics. 31. doi:10.1111/cla.12067.

[Ghafourian2016-3] Ghafourian, Mehri; Ganjalikhanhakemi, Neda; Hemmati, Ali Asghar; Dehghani, Rouhullah; et al. (2016). "The Effect of Hemiscorpius lepturus (Scorpionida: Hemiscorpiidae) Venom on Leukocytes and the Leukocyte Subgroups in Peripheral Blood of Rat". Journal of Arthropod-borne Diseases. 10 (2). PMC 4906755. PMID 27308274.

[gbif-4] "Hemiscorpius". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-12-29.

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