Diplocentridae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Arachnida
- Order
- Scorpiones
- Family
- Diplocentridae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Diplocentridae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Diplocentridae
Diplocentridae is a family of scorpions. The roughly 120 species are mostly native to the New World, except for genus Nebo, which is distributed in the Middle East.
A 2003 study suggests that this family is better treated as a subfamily of the Scorpionidae.
Taxa include:
- Subfamily Diplocentrinae Karsch, 1880
- Bioculus Stahnke, 1968
- Cazierius Francke, 1978
- Didymocentrus Kraepelin, 1905
- Diplocentrus Peters, 1861
- Heteronebo Pocock, 1899
- Kolotl Santibáñez-López, et al., 2014
- Oiclus Simon, 1880
- Tarsoporosus Francke, 1978
- Subfamily Nebinae Kraepelin, 1905
- Nebo Simon, 1878
Diplocentridae in languages:
- English
- Spinysting Scorpions
- Hebrew
- נבואיים
- Japanese
- フタトゲサソリ科
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