Centruroides griseus (C. L. Koch, 1844)

de Armas, Luis F., 2020, Scorpions of Puerto Rico and its satellite islands (Scorpiones: Buthidae, Diplocentridae): an аnnotated list, key for genera, and bibliography, Euscorpius 311, pp. 1-8 : 2

Centruroides griseus (C. L. Koch, 1844) .

DISTRIBUTION. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, including some satellite islands of the last (Vieques, Culebra, Caja de Muertos, Magueyes). The presence of C. griseus in Desecheo Island (Torres-González, 1965, cited by Santiago-Blay, 2009: 112) was considered by Teruel et al. (2015: 13) as needed of verification and probably erroneous. The Puerto Rican population was described by Armas (1982) as Centruroides griseus borinquensis , but later downgraded by him to subspecies ( Armas, 1988: 50). Nevertheless, Santiago-Blay (2009: 112) mentioned it as a subspecies of C. griseus (C. L. Koch, 1844) , whereas Esposito & Prendini (2019) removed it from the synonymy with C. griseus , and raised it to the species level, a nomenclatural action overlooked by Crew & Esposito (2020: fig. 11), who again mentioned it as a subspecies of C. griseus . If C. griseus borinquensis is a good species, then it would be most strongly demonstrated. Consequently, at this moment caution seems preferable.This is the most common scorpion in Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands, also being synanthropic (Santiago-Blay, 2009).