Heteroscorpionidae Kraepelin, 1905

Lourenço, Wilson R. & Goodman, Steven M., 2006, Description of a new species of Heteroscorpion Birula, 1903 (Scorpiones, Heteroscorpionidae) from the Montagne des Français in extreme northern Madagascar, Zootaxa 1269, pp. 31-41 : 32

Family Heteroscorpionidae Kraepelin, 1905

The phylogenetic position and taxonomic rank of Heteroscorpion have been the subject of discussions amongst scorpion systematists in recent years ( Prendini 2000; Soleglad & Fet 2003; Soleglad et al. 2005). In a recent publication, Prendini and Wheeler (2005) reestablished Heteroscorpionidae as a family, following Lourenço (1996) and Prendini (2000), after it was downgraded to a subfamily of Urodacidae Pocock, 1893 by Soleglad & Fet (2003) and a subfamily of Hemiscorpiidae Pocock, 1893 by Soleglad et al. (2005). The classification of Prendini and Wheeler (2005) is adopted here.