Chaerilus Explained
Chaerilus is a genus of scorpions in the family Chaerilidae. They live in tropical parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia.[1] A fossil genus Electrochaerilus is known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber.
Description
Total length is 15 to 75.4 mm. Orthobothriotaxy is type B. Pedipalp patella with 3 ventral trichobothria and pedipalp femur with 9 trichobothria. Ventral edge of cheliceral movable finger is crenulated. Ventrum of cheliceral fixed finger with denticle. Hemisperatophore fusiform. Pedipalp chela exhibits "8-carinae" configuration. Fifth metasomal segment consists with a single ventral carina. Legs are without tibial spurs. However prolateral and retrolateral pedal have spurs. Telson is without a subaculear tubercle.[2]
Species
It contains the following species:[3]
- Chaerilus agilis Pocock, 1899
- Chaerilus andamanensis Lourenço, Duhem & Leguin, 2011
- Chaerilus annapurna Lourenço & Duhem, 2010
- Chaerilus anneae Lourenço, 2012
- Chaerilus assamensis Kraepelin, 1913
- Chaerilus borneensis Simon, 1880
- Chaerilus cavernicola Pocock, 1894
- Chaerilus celebensis Pocock, 1894
- Chaerilus ceylonensis Pocock, 1894
- Chaerilus chapmani Vachon & Lourenço, 1985
- Chaerilus cimrmani Kovařík, 2012
- Chaerilus conchiformus Zhu, Han & Lourenço, 2008
- Chaerilus dibangvalleycus Bastawade, 2006
- Chaerilus granulatus Kovarík, Lowe, Hoferek, Forman & Král, 2015
- Chaerilus hofereki Kovarik, Kral, Korinkova & Lerma, 2014
- Chaerilus insignis Pocock, 1894
- Chaerilus julietteae Lourenço, 2011
- Chaerilus kampuchea Lourenço, 2012
- Chaerilus laevimanus Pocock, 1899
- Chaerilus laoticus Lourenço & Zhu, 2008
- Chaerilus lehtrarensis Khatoon, 1999
- Chaerilus longimanus Kovarík, Lowe, Hoferek, Forman & Král, 2015
- Chaerilus mainlingensis Di & Zhu, 2009
- Chaerilus petrzelkai Kovařík, 2000
- Chaerilus ojangureni Kovařík, 2005
- Chaerilus phami Lourenço, 2011
- Chaerilus philippinus Lourenço & Ythier, 2008
- Chaerilus pictus (Pocock, 1890)
- Chaerilus rectimanus Pocock, 1899
- Chaerilus robinsoni Hirst, 1911
- Chaerilus sabinae Lourenço, 1995
- Chaerilus seiteri Kovařík, 2012
- Chaerilus sejnai Kovařík, 2005
- Chaerilus solegladi Kovařík, 2012
- Chaerilus spinatus Lourenço & Duhem, 2010
- Chaerilus telnovi Lourenço, 2009
- Chaerilus terueli Kovařík, 2012
- Chaerilus tessellatus Qi, Zhu & Lourenço, 2005
- Chaerilus thai Lourenço, Sun & Zhu, 2010
- Chaerilus tichyi Kovařík, 2000
- Chaerilus tricostatus Pocock, 1899
- Chaerilus truncatus Karsch, 1879
- Chaerilus tryznai Kovařík, 2000
- Chaerilus variegatus Simon, 1877
- Chaerilus vietnamicus Lourenço & Zhu, 2008
- Chaerilus wrzecionkoi Kovařík, 2012
See also
Notes and References
- Book: Jonathan A. Coddington . Gonzalo Giribet . Mark S. Harvey . Lorenzo Prendini . David E. Walter . 2004 . Assembling the Tree of Life . Arachnida . 296–318 . Joel Cracraft. Joel Cracraft . Michael J. Donoghue . . 9780195172348 . https://books.google.com/books?id=6lXTP0YU6_kC&pg=PA309.
- Charles University . Kovařík . František . Lowe . Graeme . Monell Chemical Senses Center . Ranawana . Kithsiri B. . University of Peradeniya . Hoferek . David . Jayarathne . V. A. Sanjeewa . University of Peradeniya . 2016 . Scorpions of Sri Lanka (Scorpiones: Buthidae, Chaerilidae, Scorpionidae) with description of four new species of the genera Charmus Karsch, 1879 and Reddyanus Vachon, 1972, stat. n . 2021-08-29 . Euscorpius . 2016 . 220 . 1–133 . 10.18590/euscorpius.2016.vol2016.iss220.1. free .
- Web site: Chaerilidae Pocock, 1893 . The Scorpion Files . Jan Ove Rein . December 29, 2015 . December 29, 2015.
