The Scorpionfiles

Gerard Contreras-Felix and Oscar Francke have recently published a taxonomic revision of the “ mexicanus” group of the genus Vaejovis C. L.…

A very tabloid headline for this post, but I felt I couldn't plagiarize the nice original article title "Selected to survive and kill". Scorpion…

The Caribbean islands have a large scorpion population where many species are endemic for this area. But how did this unique fauna originate? There…

Andre Lira and co-workers have recently publised a study looking into how scorpion diversity, species richness, and species composition respond to…

Since Aristoteles first mentioned the presence of scorpions in Greece, the number of taxa belonging to this country have increased very much in the…

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…