Armed stem to stinger: a review of the ecological roles of scorpion weapons

Y Simone, A Meijden - Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins …, 2021 - SciELO Brasil
Scorpions possess two systems of weapons: the pincers (chelae) and the stinger (telson).
These are placed on anatomically and developmentally well separated parts of the body …

Phylogenomics facilitates stable scorpion systematics: reassessing the relationships of Vaejovidae and a new higher-level classification of Scorpiones (Arachnida)

CE Santibáñez-López, E González-Santillán… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Neartic family Vaejovidae (Scorpiones: Chactoidea) has long been treated as a
diverse and systematically cohesive group of scorpions, but its monophyly and relationship …

Redefinition and generic revision of the North American vaejovid scorpion subfamily Syntropinae Kraepelin, 1905, with descriptions of six new genera

E González-Santillán, L Prendini - Bulletin of the American Museum of …, 2013 - BioOne
ABSTRACT The endemic North American vaejovid scorpion subfamily Syntropinae, is
redefined and its component genera revised, based on a simultaneous phylogenetic …

Structure of the pecten neuropil pathway and its innervation by bimodal peg afferents in two scorpion species

D Drozd, H Wolf, T Stemme - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The pectines of scorpions are comb-like structures, located ventrally behind the fourth
walking legs and consisting of variable numbers of teeth, or pegs, which contain thousands …

Two new species of Vaejovis (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae) belonging to the mexicanus group from Aguascalientes, Mexico, with comments on the homology and function …

F Chávez-Samayoa, JE Díaz-Plascencia… - Zoologischer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Two new species of the genus Vaejovis (CL Koch 1836) belonging to the mexicanus group
from Aguascalientes, Mexico, are described and compared to other species closely related …

Vaejovis montanus (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae), a new species from the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico

MR Graham, RW Bryson Jr - The Journal of Arachnology, 2010 - BioOne
A new species of montane scorpion is described from the Sierra Madre Occidental of
Mexico. The species is morphologically similar to scorpions distributed throughout the “sky …

Multivariate methods support the distinction of a new highland Vaejovis (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae) from the Sierra de los Ajos, Mexico

MR Graham, RF Ayrey, RW Bryson Jr - The Journal of Arachnology, 2012 - BioOne
Multivariate analyses of morphological characters provide strong evidence that a highland
Vaejovis from the Sierra de los Ajos, a Madrean 'sky island'in northern Sonora, Mexico …

New species of Vaejovis CL Koch, 1836 (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae) with comments on lateral aculear serrations

GA Contreras-Félix, OF Francke - Southwestern Entomologist, 2021 - BioOne
We describe a new species of Vaejovis CL Koch from a forest of pine (Pinus Linnaeus) and
oak (Quercus Linnaeus) in the State of Guerrero in Mexico. In addition, the lateral aculear …

Sky island Vaejovis: two new species and a redescription of V. vorhiesi Stahnke (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae)

MR Graham - Euscorpius, 2007 - mds.marshall.edu
Two new scorpion species, Vaejovis cashi sp. nov. and V. feti sp. nov. are described and
placed in the “mexicanus” group of the genus Vaejovis. These small scorpions were …

Revision of the Central Asian scorpion genus Anomalobuthus Kraepelin, 1900, with descriptions of three new species and a generic synonymy (Scorpiones: Buthidae) …

R Teruel, F Kovařík, V Fet - Euscorpius, 2018 - biotaxa.org
Abstract We revise the Central Asian endemic genus Anomalobuthus Kraepelin, 1900,
which was considered monotypic for more than 100 years until the recent addition of a …