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Hormurus waigiensis, commonly known as the Australian rainforest scorpion, is an arachnid species belonging to the family Hormuridae. First described by the French entomologist Paul Gervais in 1844, the species is native to the tropical rainforests of Australia and New Guinea. These scorpions are ph...
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Australian rainforest scorpion with broad Australia-New Guinea records and recognizable common name; strong regional profile.
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Hadogenes granulatus is a species of flat rock scorpion native to rocky habitats in southern Africa. First described by the zoologist William Frederick Purcell in 1901, the species has a recorded geographic distribution spanning from Botswana to Mozambique. Like other members of the genus Hadogenes,...
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Flat rock scorpion with broad southern African records and distinctive morphology; strong specialist and hobbyist appeal.
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Hadogenes hahni is a species of flat rock scorpion native to the rocky habitats of southeastern Angola and northern Namibia. First described by Wilhelm Peters in 1862, it belongs to the family Hormuridae. Like other scorpions in this genus, it is adapted to squeezing into narrow rock crevices. This...
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Old Hadogenes species with Angola and Namibia range; solid reputation in distinctive flat-rock group.
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Hadogenes longimanus is a South African flat rock scorpion from the northern Drakensberg, described by Prendini in 2001.
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South African flat rock scorpion with distinctive long-handed morphology and modern revision value; good specialist recognition.
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Hadogenes soutpansbergensis is a species of flat rock scorpion in the family Hormuridae. It is endemic to South Africa's Soutpansberg range in Limpopo Province, so its known geographic identity is tied to a localized mountain region. Lorenzo Prendini formally described the species in 2006, making it...
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Soutpansberg endemic flat rock scorpion with modern description; high local interest, limited broader profile.
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Hadogenes newlandsi is a species of flat rock scorpion from South Africa. It was described by Lorenzo Prendini in 2001 and is associated with rocky habitats in the northern Drakensberg region of Limpopo Province, where flat rock scorpions live in narrow spaces among rock surfaces. The species is rel...
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Northern Drakensberg endemic Hadogenes from modern revision; respected but narrow in range and literature.
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Hadogenes lawrencei is a species of flat rock scorpion in the genus Hadogenes, a group of African scorpions adapted to living in narrow rock crevices. It was described by Newlands in 1972 from Namibia and was named in honor of the arachnologist R. F. Lawrence. Its flattened body and elongate appenda...
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Namibian Hadogenes named for a notable arachnologist; recognized but regionally narrow.
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Chiromachetes fergusoni is a species of scorpion in the family Hormuridae. It was described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1899 and is recorded from Kerala in southwestern India, with Thiruvananthapuram, also known as Trivandrum, given as its type locality. It is a terrestrial arachnid rather than a ma...
Opisthacanthus elatus is a species of scorpion in the family Hormuridae. It was described by Eugène Simon in 1872, not by Gervais in 1844, and is recorded from parts of Central and northern South America, including Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela. Species of Opisthacanthus are generally associated w...
Liocheles australasiae is a small scorpion commonly known as the dwarf wood scorpion. It belongs to the family Hormuridae and occurs across parts of the Indo-Pacific region, where it is associated with sheltered habitats such as decaying wood, leaf litter, and rocky crevices. The species is notable...
Liocheles waigiensis is a name long used for Hormurus waigiensis, a rainforest scorpion described by Gervais in 1844 from Australia and New Guinea.
Opisthacanthus cayaporum is a Brazilian hormurid scorpion described by Vellard in 1932, recorded from Para and Tocantins and named for the Kayapo people.
Opisthacanthus lepturus is a hormurid scorpion described by Beauvois in 1805, notable as a Hispaniola endemic in the Opisthacanthus lepturus group.
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