Euscorpius Thorell, 1876

Fet, Victor, Graham, Matthew R., Webber, Michael M. & Blagoev, Gergin, 2014, Two new species of Euscorpius (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) from Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece, Zootaxa 3894 (1), pp. 83-105 : 86

Subgenus Euscorpius Thorell, 1876 , s.str.

NOTE. The traditional subgenus Euscorpius (sensu lato) is paraphyletic, as was recently confirmed by DNA phylogenies (Tropea 2013; Parmakelis et al. 2013a). A well-supported clade containing the type species, E. carpathicus , is addressed here as subgenus Euscorpius s.str. At the same time, a number of distant basal taxa, morphologically similar to those of Euscorpius s.str., group distantly in DNA phylogenies, and have to be placed as incertae sedis, such as E. aquilejensis (C.L. Koch, 1837) , E. avcii Tropea et al. 2012 , E. balearicus Di Caporiacco, 1950 , E. tauricus (C.L. Koch, 1837) , and a number of undescribed species ( Graham et al. 2012b; Tropea 2013; Parmakelis et al. 2013a, b; Tropea et al., in prep.).