Buthoidea C. L. Koch, 1837
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https://doi.org/ 10.18590/euscorpius.2003.vol2003.iss11.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12785177 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038A87D5-D710-F515-FC9F-5A28FAD650F5 |
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Felipe |
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Buthoidea C. L. Koch, 1837 |
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Superfamily Buthoidea C. L. Koch, 1837
Type Genus. Buthus Leach, 1815 View in CoL .
Composition. Following Lourenço (2000a), we include in the superfamily Buthoidea two families: Buthidae View in CoL and Microcharmidae View in CoL .
Distribution. All continents except Antarctica.
Taxonomic history. Stockwell (1989) included Buthidae as well as Chaerilidae in his Buthoidea , noting that these two taxa were treated as subfamilies of Buthidae by Laurie (1896a). Here, we establish a separate parvorder and superfamily for Chaerilidae .
Diagnosis. See parvorder Buthida .
Discussion. Monophyly of the extant Buthoidea is well-confirmed. We do not include in Buthoidea the Cretaceous fossil taxa: family Archaeobuthidae (genus Archaeobuthus ) and genus Palaeoburmesebuthus (not assigned to any family), which were placed in Buthoidea by Lourenço (2002a, 2003); see below for further discussion. The oldest known fossils of Buthoidea , in our opinion, are Tertiary (Eocene/Paleocene; 65–55 Mya) genera of Buthidae from Baltic amber. The relationship between Buthidae and Microcharmidae is not clear.
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