Caraboctoninae Kraepelin, 1905
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https://doi.org/ 10.18590/euscorpius.2003.vol2003.iss11.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12785263 |
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Caraboctoninae Kraepelin, 1905 |
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Subfamily Caraboctoninae Kraepelin, 1905
Type Genus. Caraboctonus Pocock, 1893 View in CoL .
Synonyms.
Hadruroidinae Mello-Leitão, 1934; type genus Hadruroides Pocock, 1893 View in CoL .
Composition. This subfamily includes two genera, Caraboctonus View in CoL and Hadruroides View in CoL .
Distribution. South America ( Bolivia, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, Chile, Peru).
Biogeographic history. Of two genera of Caraboctoninae , Caraboctonus has clear adaptations to arid habitats, and is found only in the deserts of Chile and southern Peru (Lourenço, 1995).
Diagnosis. Synapomorphies. Ventral surface of leg tarsus with heavily populated spinule cluster groups; leg tarsus unguicular spur blunted; genital papillae of male visible from genital operculum posterior edge; accessory trichobothrium found in patellar external em series. Important Symplesiomorphies. Chelal trichobothrium Et 5 positioned on fixed finger; dorsal edge of cheliceral movable finger with two subdistal denticles; leg coxae IV elongated; lateral carinae partially present on metasomal segment IV; chela with “10-carinae” configuration.
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