Alpiscorpius Explained

Alpiscorpius is a genus of scorpions in the family Euscorpiidae that was first described by Benjamin Gantenbein, Victor Fet, Carlo Largiader & Adolf Scholl in 1999.^[1]

Species

Alpiscorpius contains the following twenty species:^[2]

Alpiscorpius alpha (Caporiaco, 1950)
Alpiscorpius beta (Di Caporiacco, 1950)
Alpiscorpius caporiaccoi (Bonacina, 1980)
Alpiscorpius croaticus (Di Caporiacco, 1950)
Alpiscorpius delta Kovarik, Stundlova, Fet & Stahlavsky, 2019
Alpiscorpius dinaricus (Di Caporiacco, 1950)
Alpiscorpius gamma (Caporiaco, 1950)
Alpiscorpius germanus (C.L. Koch, 1837)
Alpiscorpius kappa Kovarik, Stundlova, Fet & Stahlavsky, 2019
Alpiscorpius karamani Tropea, 2021
Alpiscorpius lambda Kovarik, Stundlova, Fet & Stahlavsky, 2019
Alpiscorpius liburnicus Podnar et al., 2022^[3]
Alpiscorpius mingrelicus (Kessler, 1874)
Alpiscorpius omega Kovarik, Stundlova, Fet & Stahlavsky, 2019
Alpiscorpius omikron Kovarik, Stundlova, Fet & Stahlavsky, 2019
Alpiscorpius pavicevici Tropea, 2021
Alpiscorpius phrygius (Bonacina, 1980)
Alpiscorpius sigma Kovarik, Stundlova, Fet & Stahlavsky, 2019
Alpiscorpius uludagensis (Lacroix, 1995)
Alpiscorpius ypsilon Kovarik, Stundlova, Fet & Stahlavsky, 2019
Alpiscorpius zloporubovici Tropea, 2021

References

Gantenbein . Benjamin . Fet . Victor . Largiader . Carlo . Scholl . Adolf . 1999 . First DNA phylogeny of Euscorpius Thorell, 1876 (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) and its bearing on taxonomy and biogeography of this genus . Biogeographica . 75 . 2 . 49–65 . 1165-6638.
Web site: Rein . Jan Ove . 2022 . Euscorpiidae Laurie, 1896 . 11 April 2022 . The Scorpion Files.
Podnar . Martina . Tvrtković . Nikola . Vuković . Marijana . Rebrina . Fran . Grbac . Irena . Hörweg . Christoph . 2022-12-30 . Alpiscorpius liburnicus sp. n. with a note on the "Alpiscorpius croaticus group" (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) in Croatia . Natura Croatica: Periodicum Musei Historiae Naturalis Croatici . en . 31 . 2 . 265–282 . 10.20302/NC.2022.31.19 . 256182334 . 1330-0520. free .