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Chaerilus
Chaerilus is a genus of scorpions in the family Chaerilidae. They live in tropical parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. A fossil genus Electrochaerilus is known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber.
29 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Chaerilus variegatus
speciesChaerilus variegatus

Chaerilus rectimanus
speciesChaerilus rectimanus

Chaerilus borneensis
speciesChaerilus borneensis
Chaerilus truncatus
speciesChaerilus truncatus

Chaerilus ceylonensis
speciesChaerilus ceylonensis

Chaerilus solegladi
speciesChaerilus solegladi

Chaerilus pseudoconchiformus
speciesChaerilus pseudoconchiformus

Chaerilus cimrmani
speciesChaerilus cimrmani

Chaerilus pictus
speciesChaerilus pictus

Chaerilus tricostatus
speciesChaerilus tricostatus

Chaerilus conchiformus
speciesChaerilus conchiformus

Chaerilus ojangureni
speciesChaerilus ojangureni

Chaerilus stockmannorum
speciesChaerilus stockmannorum

Chaerilus kautti
speciesChaerilus kautti

Chaerilus tichyi
speciesChaerilus tichyi

Chaerilus philippinus
speciesChaerilus philippinus

Chaerilus kampuchea
speciesChaerilus kampuchea

Chaerilus tryznai
speciesChaerilus tryznai

Chaerilus celebensis
speciesChaerilus celebensis

Chaerilus wrzecionkoi
speciesChaerilus wrzecionkoi

Chaerilus assamensis
speciesChaerilus assamensis

Chaerilus chapmani
speciesChaerilus chapmani

Chaerilus herta
speciesChaerilus herta

Chaerilus honba
speciesChaerilus honba

Chaerilus seiteri
speciesChaerilus seiteri
Chaerilus tessellatus
speciesChaerilus tessellatus
Chaerilus thai
speciesChaerilus thai
Chaerilus mainlingensis
speciesChaerilus mainlingensis
Chaerilus neradorum
speciesChaerilus neradorum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 362374.