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Chaerilus
Temporal range: Cretaceous–present
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Chaerilidae

Pocock, 1893
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Chaerilus

Simon, 1877

Chaerilus is a genus of scorpions, the only genus in the monotypic family Chaerilidae.[1] They live in tropical parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia.[2] A fossil genus Electrochaerilus is known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber.

It contains the following species:[3]

References

  1. ^ Lorenzo Prendini (2011). "Order Scorpiones C. L. Koch, 1850" (PDF). In Zhi-Qiang Zhang (ed.). Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Vol. 3148. pp. 115–117. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  2. ^ Jonathan A. Coddington; Gonzalo Giribet; Mark S. Harvey; Lorenzo Prendini; David E. Walter (2004). "Arachnida". In Joel Cracraft; Michael J. Donoghue (eds.). Assembling the Tree of Life. Oxford University Press. pp. 296–318. ISBN 9780195172348.
  3. ^ Jan Ove Rein (December 29, 2015). "Chaerilidae Pocock, 1893". The Scorpion Files. Retrieved December 29, 2015.