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South Africa harbors a large diversity of scorpions, including many species in the medical important genus Parabuthus Pocock, 1890 (Buthidae).…

Several studies have shown that scorpions have different strategies for optimizing the venom use. The reason for this is of course because it …

Wilson Lourenco has recently published a new species of ChaerilusSimon, 1877 (Chaerilidae) from Vietnam. Chaerilus honbaLourenco,…

The higher-level systematics of scorpions has been significantly revised and discussed in the recent year, not without controversies.The family…

Phenotypic conservatism is typical for many scorpion taxa.In layman's term, this mean that many scorpion species look morphologically similar…

Euscorpius carpathicus(Linnaeus, 1767) (Euscorpiidae) was previously distributed all over Europe, but modern taxonomy revealed that it was a major…

Frantisek Kovarik and co-workers have recently published a revision of the genus Orthochirus Karsch, 1891 (Buthidae) from…

Graeme Lowe and co-workers have recently published an article describing a new genus and and a new species i the family Buthidae from the Arabian…

Shahrokh Navidpour and co-workers have published a new paper on the scorpion fauna of Iran and a new species of OrthochirusKarsch, 1891 (Buthidae)…

Thanks to Frantisek Kovarik and his team we have in the last years seen a much needed update of the scorpion fauna of East Africa. In a new…