Heteroscorpioninae Kraepelin, 1905

Soleglad, Michael E. & Fet, Victor, 2003, High-level systematics and phylogeny of the extant scorpions (Scorpiones: Orthosterni), Euscorpius 2003 (11), pp. 1-175 : 117

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scientific name	Heteroscorpioninae Kraepelin, 1905
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Subfamily Heteroscorpioninae Kraepelin, 1905

Type Genus. Heteroscorpion Birula, 1903 View in CoL .

Composition. This taxon is here downgraded to subfamily rank, and placed in the family Urodacidae . This monotypic subfamily includes a single genus, Heteroscorpion View in CoL .

Distribution. The subfamily is endemic to Madagascar.

Taxonomic history. This monotypic taxon was traditionally listed as a subfamily of Scorpionidae . Lourenço (1985, 1989) suggested that its only genus Heteroscorpion belongs to Ischnuridae (now Liochelidae ). In an unpublished classification of Stockwell (1989) Heteroscorpioninae was transferred to Ischnuridae as a subfamily. Sissom (1990) listed Heteroscorpion under Ischnuridae without subfamilial division. The subfamily Heteroscorpioninae was elevated to the family level by Lourenço (1996a), and subsequently was treated as a family (Fet, 2000b; Prendini, 2000).

Diagnosis. See Prendini (2000) for details on the diagnosis of this subfamily (as family Heteroscorpionidae ).

Discussion. See discussion under family Urodacidae .