Hadogenes

Hadogenes
Hadogenes troglodytes in Soutpansberg, South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Scorpiones
Family: Hemiscorpiidae
Genus: Hadogenes
Kraepelin, 1894
Diversity
18 species (see text)

Hadogenes is a genus of large African scorpions (including the worlds longest, Hadogenes troglodytes) found from South Africa up to Tanzania.[1]

The species in this genus are:[2]

References

  1. Jonathan Leeming (2003). "Southern African species". Scorpions of Southern Africa. Struik. p. 61. ISBN 978-1-86872-804-6.
  2. Prendini, L. 2005a. Scorpion diversity and distribution in southern Africa: pattern and process. In B.A. Huber, B.J. Sinclair, and K.H. Lampe (editors), African biodiversity: molecules, organisms, ecosystems: 25–68. New York: Springer.
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