Smeringurus is a small genus of scorpions native to Mexico and the southwestern United States within the family Vaejovidae.[1][2] It is closely related to the genus Paruroctonus, of which it was formerly considered a subgenus.[3][4]
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| Smeringurus vachoni | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Scorpiones |
| Family: | Vaejovidae |
| Genus: | Smeringurus Haradon, 1983 |
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Species
editList according to The Scorpion Files:[5]
- Smeringurus aridus (Soleglad, 1972)
- Smeringurus grandis (Williams, 1970)
- Smeringurus mesaensis (Stahnke, 1957)
- Smeringurus vachoni (Stahnke, 1961)
References
edit- ^ Soleglad, Michael E.; Fet, Victor. "Contributions to Scorpion Systematics. III. Subfamilies Smeringurinae and Syntropinae (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae)" (PDF). Marshall University. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
- ^ Jean-Luc E. Cartron; Gerardo Ceballos; Richard Stephen Felger (25 August 2005). Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Conservation in Northern Mexico. Oxford University Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-19-534812-5.
- ^ Haradon (1983). "Smeringurus, a new subgenus of Paruroctonus Werner (Scorpiones, Vaejovidae)". Journal of Arachnology: 251–270.
- ^ Merrett, Norman I. Platnick. Ed. by P. (1997). Advances in spider taxonomy : 1992-1995 ; with redescriptions 1940-1980. New York: The New York Entomology Society. ISBN 9780913424247.
Smeringurus has been treated as a separate genus (Stockwell, 1992), without data for justification beyond that provided originally by Haradon. We feel that the situation requires further study, but have listed Smeringurus as a separate genus here.
- ^ "The Scorpion Files - Vaejovidae".
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