Pandinus imperator

Pandinus imperator

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Neoscorpionina
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Scorpiones Subordo: Neoscorpionina

Familia: Scorpionidae
Subfamilia: Pandininae
Genus: Pandinus
Species: Pandinus imperator

Name

Pandinus imperator Koch 1841:

Type locality: unknown locality.

Holotype: SMNS. male ♂. SMNS-Scor-002031.

Synonymy

• Buthus imperator C. L. Koch, 1841: 1
• Pandinus imperator (C.L. Koch): Vachon, 1967: 1534
• Heterometrus roeseli Simon, 1872: 54 (synonymized by Thorell, 1876: 203)
• Scorpio simoni Becker, 1880: 137 (synonymized by Thorell, 1893: 377).

References

Primary references

• Koch, C.L. 1841. Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Achter Band, pp. 41–131, pl. 265–288 (f. 621–694); Neunter Band, pp. 1–56, pl. 289–306 (f. 695–726). DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.43744 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Becker, L. 1880. Études sur les scorpions. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 25: 134–145. Reference page. 
• Kovařík, F. 2011. A review of the subgenus Pandinus Thorell, 1876 with descriptions of two new species from Uganda and Ethiopia (Scorpiones, Scorpionidae). Euscorpius 129: 1–18. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Simon, E. 1872c. Etudes ser les Scorpions. Révision des Heterometrus du groupe de l ́H. afer, L. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée 23(2): 51– 59. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

• English: Emperor Scorpion
• italiano: Scorpione imperatore
• Tyap: A̱gbaguru

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