Vaejovis C.L. Koch, 1836

Soleglad, Michael E. & Fet, Victor, 2008, Contributions to scorpion systematics. III. Subfamilies Smeringurinae and Syntropinae (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae), Euscorpius 71 (71), pp. 1-115 : 99

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Genus Vaejovis C.L. Koch, 1836 View in CoL

Type Species. Vaejovis mexicanus C. L. Koch,

1836.

Synonyms:

Parabroteas Penther, 1913: 244–245, fig. 5; type species by monotypy Vaejovis mexicanus C. L. Koch, 1836 , as Parabroteas montezuma Penther, 19 13; a junior homonym of Parabroteas Mrázek, 19 02 (Crustacea); see Fet & Soleglad (2007) for taxonomic history and nomenclature.

Pentheria Francke, 1985: 3, 11, 16, 19; a replacement name for Parabroteas Penther, 1913; synonymized by Sissom, 2000: 529–530. Type species: Vaejovis mexicanus C. L. Koch, 1836 , as Parabroteas montezuma Penther, 1913; for details, see Fet & Soleglad (2007).

References (selected):

Vaejovis View in CoL : C.L. Koch, 1836: 51; Pocock, 1898: 400; Pocock, 1902: 9; Ewing, 1928: 7, 9–10, 12 (in part); Williams, 1974: 15 (in part); Williams, 1980: 48–55 (in part); Sissom, 1990a: 110, 114 (in part); Stockwell, 1992: 419, figs. 4, 1 1, 23, 26, 36, 38, 41, 43, 45, 46, 50 (in part); Kovařík, 1998: 146 (in part); Beutelspacher, 2000: 56, 73, 152 (in part); Sissom, 2000: 529–552 (in part); Soleglad & Fet, 2003b: 88 (in part); Soleglad & Fet, 2005: 1–12, figs. 1, 4, 7, 20–29 ( “nigrescens View in CoL ” group); Fet & Soleglad, 2007: 251–263, figs. 1–7 ( “mexicanus View in CoL ” group).

Vejovis : Thorell, 1876: 10 (in part); Kraepelin, 1894: 182, 198 (in part); Kraepelin, 1899: 183– 185 (in part); Birula, 1917a: 163 (in part); Birula, 1917b: 57 (in part); Hoffmann, 1931: 346 (in part); Werner, 1934: 282 (in part); Gertsch & Soleglad, 1972: 553, 557, 559, 564, 593 (in part); Soleglad, 1973b: 351–360 ( “mexicanus View in CoL ” group); Stahnke, 1974: 132–136 (in part).

Composition. The genus, currently comprised of 40

species, is divided into two informal groups, the “mexicanus View in CoL ” group, comprised of 28 species, and “nigrescens View in CoL ” group, comprised of 1 2 species:

References

BEUTELSPACHER BAIGTS, C. R. 2000. Catalogo de los alacranes de Mexico. Morelia, Michoacan: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicholas de Hidalgo. 175 pp.

(BIRULA, A. A.) BYALYNITSKII-BIRULYA, A. A. 1917 a. Arachnoidea Arthrogastra Caucasica. Pars I. Scorpiones. Zapiski Kavkazskogo Muzeya (Memoires du Musee du Caucase), Tiflis: Imprimerie de la Chancellerie du Comite pour la Transcaucasie, A (5), 253 pp. (in Russian; published August 1917). English translation: Byalynitskii-Birulya, A. A. 1964. Arthrogastric Arachnids of Caucasia. 1. Scorpions. Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 170 pp.

(BIRULA, A. A.) BYALYNITSKII-BIRULYA, A. A. 1917 b. Faune de la Russie et des pays limitrophes fondee principalement sur les collections du Musee Zoologique de l'Academie des Sciences de Russie. Arachnides (Arachnoidea). Petrograd, 1 (1): xx, 22 7 pp. (in Russian; Introduction dated October 1917). English translation: Byalynitskii-Birulya, A. A. 1965. Fauna of Russia and Adjacent Countries. Arachnoidea. Vol. I. Scorpions. Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, xix, 154 pp.

EWING, H. E. 1928. The scorpions of the western part of the United States; with notes on those occurring in northern Mexico. Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum, 73 (9): 1 - 24.

FET, V. & M. E. SOLEGLAD. 2005. Contributions to scorpion systematics. I. On recent changes in high-level taxonomy. Euscorpius, 31: 1 - 13.

FRANCKE, O. F. 1985. Conspectus genericus scorpionorum 1758 - 1982 (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Occasional Papers of the Museum, Texas Tech University, 98: 1 - 32.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Scorpiones
Family	Vaejovidae