Hadogenes
| Hadogenes | |
|---|---|
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| 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]
- Hadogenes bicolor Purcell, 1899
- Hadogenes gracilis Hewitt, 1909
- Hadogenes granulatus Purcell, 1901
- Hadogenes gunningi Purcell, 1899
- Hadogenes hahni Peters, 1862
- Hadogenes lawrencei Newlands, 1972
- Hadogenes longimanus Prendini, 2001
- Hadogenes minor Purcell, 1899
- Hadogenes newlandsi Prendini, 2001
- Hadogenes paucidens Pocock, 1896
- Hadogenes phyllodes Thorell, 1876
- Hadogenes polytrichobothrius Prendini, 2006
- Hadogenes soutpansbergensis Prendini, 2006
- Hadogenes tityrus Simon, 1888
- Hadogenes trichiurus Gervais, 1843
- Hadogenes troglodytes Peters, 1861
- Hadogenes zuluanus Lawrence, 1937
- Hadogenes zumpti Newlands & Cantrell, 1985
References
- ↑ Jonathan Leeming (2003). "Southern African species". Scorpions of Southern Africa. Struik. p. 61. ISBN 978-1-86872-804-6.
- ↑ 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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