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Largeclaw Scorpions
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Largeclaw Scorpions

Scorpionidae

The Scorpionidae (burrowing scorpions or pale-legged scorpions) make up the superfamily Scorpionoidea. The family was established by Pierre André Latreille, 1802.

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5 branches of this family, most-observed first

Heterometrinae

subfamilyHeterometrinae

Opistophthalminae

subfamilyOpistophthalminae

Scorpioninae

subfamilyScorpioninae

Pandininae

subfamilyPandininae

Jordanius

genusJordanius

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 127716.