Heterometrus

Asian forest scorpion (Heterometrus laoticus)

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Neoscorpionina
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Scorpiones Subordo: Neoscorpionina

Familia: Scorpionidae
Genus: Heterometrus
Species: H. glaucus – H. laevigatus – H. laoticus – H. longimanus – H. petersii – H. silenus – H. spinifer – H. thorellii

Name

Heterometrus Ehrenberg, 1828

References

• Prendini, L. & Loria, S.F. 2020. Systematic Revision of the Asian Forest Scorpions (Heterometrinae Simon, 1879), Revised Suprageneric Classification of Scorpionidae Latreille, 1802, and Revalidation of Rugodentidae Bastawade et al., 2005. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 442(1): 1–480. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.442.1.1 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Asian forest scorpion, Giant forest scorpion
ไทย: แมงป่องช้าง

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