Schizomus Explained

Schizomus is a genus of hubbardiid short-tailed whipscorpions, first described by Orator Cook in 1899.^[1]

Species

, the World Schizomida Catalog accepts the following twenty-four species:^[2]

• Schizomus africanus (Hansen, 1905) – Sierra Leone
• Schizomus arganoi Brignoli, 1973 – Mexico
• Schizomus brevicaudus (Hansen, 1921) – Guinea-Bissau
• Schizomus cambridgei (Thorell, 1889) – Myanmar
• Schizomus crassicaudatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Sri Lanka, Introduced to France
• Schizomus formicoides Fernando, 1957 – Sri Lanka
• Schizomus ghesquierei (Giltay, 1935) – Congo
• Schizomus greeni Gravely, 1912 – Sri Lanka
• Schizomus hanseni Mello-Leitão, 1931 – Tanzania
• Schizomus kharagpurensis Gravely, 1912 – India
• Schizomus mediocriter Lawrence, 1969 – Tanzania
• Schizomus modestus (Hansen, 1905) – Malaysia, Papua New Guinea
• Schizomus montanus Hansen, 1910 – Congo, Tanzania
• Schizomus nidicola Lawrence, 1969 – Congo
• Schizomus parvus (Hansen, 1921) – Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe
• Schizomus pauliani Lawrence, 1969 – Comoros
• Schizomus perplexus Gravely, 1915 – Sri Lanka
• Schizomus peteloti (Rémy, 1946) – Vietnam
• Schizomus procerus (Hansen, 1905) – Singapore
• Schizomus schoutedeni (Roewer, 1954) – Congo
• Schizomus tenuipes Lawrence, 1969 – Mauritius (Rodrigues)
• Schizomus vinsoni Lawrence, 1969 – Mauritius
• Schizomus virescens Lawrence, 1969 – Mauritius (Rodrigues)
• Schizomus vittatus Gravely, 1911 – Sri Lanka

Notes and References

1. Cook . Orator . 1899 . Hubbardia, a new genus of Pedipalpi . . 4 . 3 . 249–261.
2. Web site: Genus: Schizomus Cook, 1899 . 6 June 2022 . World Schizomida Catalog . Natural History Museum Bern.