Liocheles australasiae
| Liocheles australasiae | |
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| Liocheles australasiae from Enggano Island. Museum specimens | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Scorpiones |
| Family: | Hormuridae |
| Genus: | Liocheles |
| Species: | L. australasiae
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| Binomial name | |
| Liocheles australasiae (Fabricius, 1775)
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| Synonyms | |
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Liocheles australasiae, the dwarf wood scorpion, is a species of scorpion belonging to the family Hormuridae.[1][2][3][4]
Distribution
This species is present in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Yaeyama Islands (Japan), China, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Mariana Islands, Indonesia, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and French Polynesia.[5][6]
Description
This small scorpion has the total length of 22 to 36 mm.[6][7]
Most of the populations are parthenogenetic, meaning they can produce young without males.[8]
Bibliography
- Yamazaki K, Yahata H, Kobayashi N, Makioka T. Egg maturation and parthenogenetic recovery of diploidy in the scorpion Liocheles australasiae (Fabricius) (Scorpions, ischnuridae).
- TOSHIKI MAKIOKA Reproductive biology of the viviparous scorpion, Liocheles australasiae (Fabricius) (Arachnida, Scorpiones, Ischnuridae) IV. Pregnancy in females isolated from infancy, with notes on juvenile stage duration
- Fabricius, 1775 : Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis, synonymis, locis descriptionibus observationibus. Flensburg and Lipsiae.
- Monod, 2011 : Taxonomic emendations in the genus Liocheles Sundevall, 1833 (Scorpiones, Liochelidae). Revue suisse de Zoologie, vol. 118, no 4, p. 723-758.
See also
References
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- ^ "Habitat characteristics of two scorpion species, Liocheles australasiae (Fabricius, 1775) and Isometrus maculatus (De Geer, 1778) in Miyako Islands, Japan". Euscorpius - Occasional Publications in Scorpiology. 2021, No. 331. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
- ^ Yamazaki, Kazunori; Makioka, Toshiki (2005). "Parthenogenesis through Five Generations in the Scorpion Liocheles australasiae (Fabricius 1775) (Scorpiones, Ischnuridae)". The Journal of Arachnology. 33 (3): 852–856. doi:10.1636/S02-5.1. JSTOR 4129888. S2CID 86267838. Archived from the original on 2023-12-07. Retrieved 2021-08-31.