Centruroides
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Centruroides | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Striped Bark Scorpion (Centruroides vittatus)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scientific classification | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
| Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Numerous, see text |
Centruroides is a genus of scorpions, the typical bark scorpions. Numerous species are extensively found throughout the warm parts of the New World. Some are known for their (among Buthidae) interesting patterning or large size; most if not all shine up brightly in a blacklight at close distance, except when newly molted. They contain several highly venomous species, and fatalities are known occur.
[edit] Selected species
- Centruroides anchorellus
- Centruroides arctimanus
- Centruroides barbudensis
- Centruroides bicolor
- Centruroides exilicauda (recently split from C. sculpturatus)
- Centruroides gracilis
- Centruroides guanensis
- Centruroides limbatus
- Centruroides margaritatus
- Centruroides nigropunctatus
- Centruroides polito
- Centruroides robertoi
- Centruroides sculpturatus – Arizona Bark Scorpion
- Centruroides spectatus
- Centruroides vittatus – Striped Bark Scorpion
[edit] External links
.png){kind=small}
