Centruroides Marx 1890
Authors/Creators
- 1. Departamento de Investigación en Entomología Médica, Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de Salud, Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá
- 2. P. O. Box 4327, San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa 38100, Cuba
- 3. Universidad de Panamá, Facultad de Medicina, Centro de Información e Investigación de Medicamentos y Tóxicos (CIIMET), Panamá
- 4. Universidad de Panamá. Museo de Invertebrados G. B. Fairchild de la Universidad de Panamá, Panamá
Description
Genus Centruroides Marx, 1890
(Figures 1–24; Tables 1–7)
Diagnosis according to Esposito et al. (2017; 2018) and Armas et al. (2012): Centruroides display a colouration ranging from uniform yellow to uniform black and may be patterned or mottled. Specimens measure between 35– 145 mm in total length. Pedipalp orthobothriotaxic A; chela digits of the pedipalp have seven to nine primary rows of granules closely flanked by accessory denticles prolaterally and retrolaterally. Leg I with a forked pedal spur; patella of the pedipalp with prodorsal and proventral carinae converging toward the mid-segment. Metasoma is linear with parallel sides; it does not increase in width posteriorly. The metasoma is elongated and narrow in males, longer than the prosoma and mesosoma combined.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Marx
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Scorpiones
- Family
- Buthidae
- Genus
- Centruroides
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Centruroides Marx, 1890 sec. Miranda, Armas, Cleghorn, Lezcano, Castillo, Cambra & Murgas, 2026
References
- Esposito, L. A., Yamaguti, H. Y., Sousa, C. A., Pinto-Da-Rocha, R. & Prendini, L. (2017) Systematic revision of the Neotropical club-tailed scorpions, Physoctonus, Rhopalurus and Troglorhopalurus, revalidation of Heteroctenus and descriptions of two new genera and three new species (Buthidae: Rhopalurusinae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2017 (415), 1-136. https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090-415.1.1
- Esposito, L. A., Yamaguti, H. Y., Pinto-Da-Rocha, R. & Prendini, L. (2018) Plucking with the plectrum: Phylogeny of the New World buthid scorpion subfamily Centruroidinae Kraus, 1955 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) reveals evolution of three pectensternite stridulation organs. Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny, 76, 87-122. https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.76.e31942
- Armas, L. F. de, Luna Sarmiento, D. & Florez, D. E. (2012) Composicion del genero Centruroides Marx, 1890 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) en Colombia, con la descripcion de una nueva especie. Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 50, 105-114.