Hemiscorpiinae Pocock 1893
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Type Genus. Hemiscorpius Peters, 1861.
Composition. This taxon is downgraded here from family to subfamily rank under Liochelidae. The family includes two genera (Habibiella and Hemiscorpius).
Distribution. Asia (Middle East), Africa (Eritrea, Somalia).
Taxonomic history. This subfamily was traditionally listed under Scorpionidae (Fet, 2000c). Its transfer to Ischnuridae (now Liochelidae) was first suggested in the unpublished classification of Stockwell (1989). It was elevated to the family level simultaneously by Lourenço (2000a) who did not provide any justification,
and by Prendini (2000) who provided a detailed phylogenetic analysis; both papers were published in March 2000. Prendini (2000) demonstrated that Hemiscorpiidae is a sister group of Ischnuridae.
Diagnosis. See Prendini (2000) for details on the diagnosis of this subfamily (as family Hemiscorpiidae).
Discussion. Highly derived features of this subfamily include unusually toxic hemolytic venom of Hemiscorpius.
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- Journal article: 10.18590/euscorpius.2003.vol2003.iss11.1 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Pocock
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Scorpiones
- Family
- Hemiscorpiidae
- Taxon rank
- subFamily
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hemiscorpiinae Pocock, 1893 sec. Soleglad & Fet, 2003
References
- POCOCK, R. I. 1893. Notes on the clasification of scorpions, followed by some observations on synonymy, with descriptions of new genera and species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (6), 12: 303 - 330.
- PETERS, W. 1861. (Ueber eine neue Eintheilung der Skorpione und ueber die von ihm in Mossambique gesammelten Arten von Skorpionen). Monatsberichte der Koniglichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1861: 507 - 516.
- STOCKWELL, S. A. 1989. Revision of the Phylogeny and Higher Classification of Scorpions (Chelicerata). Ph. D. Thesis, University of Berkeley, Berkeley, California. 319 pp. (unpublished). University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- PRENDINI, L. 2000. Phylogeny and classification of the superfamily Scorpionoidea Latreille 1802 (Chelicerata, Scorpiones): An exemplar approach. Cladistics, 16: 1 - 78. (March 2000).