Chaerilus

Chaerilus is a genus of scorpions in the 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.

Chaerilus
Temporal range:
Chaerilus pseudoconchiformus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Scorpiones
Family: Chaerilidae
Genus: Chaerilus
Simon, 1877
Diversity
46 species
Synonyms[1]
  • Chaerilus Simon, 1877
  • Chelomachus Thorell, 1889
  • Uromachus Pocock, 1890

Description

Total length is 15 to 75.4 mm. Orthobothriotaxy is type B. Pedipalp patella with 3 ventral trichobothria and pedipalp femur with 9 trichobothria. Ventral edge of cheliceral movable finger is crenulated. Ventrum of cheliceral fixed finger with denticle. Hemisperatophore fusiform. Pedipalp chela exhibits "8-carinae" configuration. Fifth metasomal segment consists with a single ventral carina. Legs are without tibial spurs. However prolateral and retrolateral pedal have spurs. Telson is without a subaculear tubercle.[3]

Species

It contains the following species:[4]

  • Chaerilus agilis Pocock, 1899
  • Chaerilus andamanensis Lourenço, Duhem & Leguin, 2011
  • Chaerilus annapurna Lourenço & Duhem, 2010
  • Chaerilus anneae Lourenço, 2012
  • Chaerilus assamensis Kraepelin, 1913
  • Chaerilus borneensis Simon, 1880
  • Chaerilus cavernicola Pocock, 1894
  • Chaerilus celebensis Pocock, 1894
  • Chaerilus ceylonensis Pocock, 1894
  • Chaerilus chapmani Vachon & Lourenço, 1985
  • Chaerilus cimrmani Kovařík, 2012
  • Chaerilus conchiformus Zhu, Han & Lourenço, 2008
  • Chaerilus dibangvalleycus Bastawade, 2006
  • Chaerilus granulatus Kovarík, Lowe, Hoferek, Forman & Král, 2015
  • Chaerilus hofereki Kovarik, Kral, Korinkova & Lerma, 2014
  • Chaerilus insignis Pocock, 1894
  • Chaerilus julietteae Lourenço, 2011
  • Chaerilus kampuchea Lourenço, 2012
  • Chaerilus laevimanus Pocock, 1899
  • Chaerilus laoticus Lourenço & Zhu, 2008
  • Chaerilus lehtrarensis Khatoon, 1999
  • Chaerilus longimanus Kovarík, Lowe, Hoferek, Forman & Král, 2015
  • Chaerilus mainlingensis Di & Zhu, 2009
  • Chaerilus petrzelkai Kovařík, 2000
  • Chaerilus ojangureni Kovařík, 2005
  • Chaerilus phami Lourenço, 2011
  • Chaerilus philippinus Lourenço & Ythier, 2008
  • Chaerilus pictus (Pocock, 1890)
  • Chaerilus rectimanus Pocock, 1899
  • Chaerilus robinsoni Hirst, 1911
  • Chaerilus sabinae Lourenço, 1995
  • Chaerilus seiteri Kovařík, 2012
  • Chaerilus sejnai Kovařík, 2005
  • Chaerilus solegladi Kovařík, 2012
  • Chaerilus spinatus Lourenço & Duhem, 2010
  • Chaerilus telnovi Lourenço, 2009
  • Chaerilus terueli Kovařík, 2012
  • Chaerilus tessellatus Qi, Zhu & Lourenço, 2005
  • Chaerilus thai Lourenço, Sun & Zhu, 2010
  • Chaerilus tichyi Kovařík, 2000
  • Chaerilus tricostatus Pocock, 1899
  • Chaerilus truncatus Karsch, 1879
  • Chaerilus tryznai Kovařík, 2000
  • Chaerilus variegatus Simon, 1877
  • Chaerilus vietnamicus Lourenço & Zhu, 2008
  • Chaerilus wrzecionkoi Kovařík, 2012

References
  1. "Chaerilus". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  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. Charles University; Kovařík, František; Lowe, Graeme; Monell Chemical Senses Center; Ranawana, Kithsiri B.; University of Peradeniya; Hoferek, David; Jayarathne, V. A. Sanjeewa; University of Peradeniya (2016). "Scorpions of Sri Lanka (Scorpiones: Buthidae, Chaerilidae, Scorpionidae) with description of four new species of the genera Charmus Karsch, 1879 and Reddyanus Vachon, 1972, stat. n". Euscorpius. 2016 (220): 1–133. doi:10.18590/euscorpius.2016.vol2016.iss220.1. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
  4. Jan Ove Rein (December 29, 2015). "Chaerilidae Pocock, 1893". The Scorpion Files. Retrieved December 29, 2015.


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