Chaerilus is a genus of scorpions in the family Chaerilidae.[2] They live in tropical parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia.[3] A fossil genus Electrochaerilus is known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber.
Description
Total length is 15 to 75.4 mm.[1]
Species
It contains the following species:[4]
- Chaerilus adrianoi Lourenço & Ythier, 2024
- Chaerilus agilis Pocock, 1899
- Chaerilus agnellivanniorum Lourenço & Rossi, 2018
- Chaerilus alberti Kovařík, 2019
- Chaerilus andamanensis Lourenço, Duhem & Leguin, 2011
- Chaerilus annapurna Lourenço & Duhem, 2010
- Chaerilus anneae Lourenço, 2012
- Chaerilus assamensis Kraepelin, 1913
- Chaerilus birmanicus Thorell, 1889
- Chaerilus borneensis Simon, 1880
- Chaerilus cavernicola Pocock, 1894
- Chaerilus celebensis Pocock, 1894
- Chaerilus ceylonensis Pocock, 1894
- Chaerilus chapmani Vachon & Lourenço, 1985
- Chaerilus chubluk Lourenço, Tran & Pham, 2020
- Chaerilus cimrmani Kovařík, 2012
- Chaerilus conchiformus Zhu, Han & Lourenço, 2008
- Chaerilus granulatus Kovařík, Lowe, Hoferek, Forman & Král, 2015
- Chaerilus herta Tang, 2025
- Chaerilus hofereki Kovarik, Kral, Korinkova & Lerma, 2014
- Chaerilus insignis Pocock, 1894
- Chaerilus julietteae Lourenço, 2011
- Chaerilus kampuchea Lourenço, 2012
- Chaerilus kautti Kovařík, Lowe, Stockmann & Stahlavsky, 2020
- Chaerilus laevimanus Pocock, 1899
- Chaerilus laoticus Lourenço & Zhu, 2008
- Chaerilus lehtrarensis Khatoon, 1999
- Chaerilus longimanus Kovařík, Lowe, Hoferek, Forman & Král, 2015
- Chaerilus mainlingensis Di & Zhu, 2009
- Chaerilus majkusi Kovařík, Lowe & Stahlavsky, 2018
- Chaerilus neradorum Kovařík, Lowe & Stahlavsky, 2018
- Chaerilus ojangureni Kovařík, 2005
- Chaerilus pakistanus Ythier & Lourenço, 2025
- Chaerilus pathom Lourenço & Pham, 2014
- Chaerilus petrzelkai Kovařík, 2000
- Chaerilus philippinus Lourenço & Ythier, 2008
- Chaerilus pictus (Pocock, 1890)
- Chaerilus pseudoconchiformus Yin, Qiu, Pan, Li & Di, 2015
- Chaerilus pulcherrimus Kovařík, Lowe, Stockmann & Stahlavsky, 2020
- Chaerilus rectimanus Pocock, 1899
- Chaerilus robinsoni Hirst, 1911
- Chaerilus sabinae Lourenço, 1995
- Chaerilus seiteri Kovařík, 2012
- Chaerilus sejnai Kovařík, 2005
- Chaerilus solegladi Kovařík, 2012
- Chaerilus spinatus Lourenço & Duhem, 2010
- Chaerilus stockmannorum Kovařík, Lowe & Stahlavsky, 2018
- Chaerilus telnovi Lourenço, 2009
- Chaerilus terueli Kovařík, 2012
- Chaerilus tessellatus Qi, Zhu & Lourenço, 2005
- Chaerilus thai Lourenço, Sun & Zhu, 2010
- Chaerilus tichyi Kovařík, 2000
- Chaerilus tricostatus Pocock, 1899
- Chaerilus truncatus Karsch, 1879
- Chaerilus tryznai Kovařík, 2000
- Chaerilus variegatus Simon, 1877
- Chaerilus vietnamicus Lourenço & Zhu, 2008
- Chaerilus wrzecionkoi Kovařík, 2012
See also
References
- ^ a b Kovařík, František; Lowe, Graeme; Ranawana, Kithsiri B.; Hoferek, David; Jayarathne, V. A. Sanjeewa; Plíšková, Jana; Šťáhlavský, František (2016). “Scorpions of Sri Lanka (Scorpiones: Buthidae, Chaerilidae, Scorpionidae) with description of four new species of the genera Charmus Karsch, 1879 and Reddyanus Vachon, 1972, stat. n.” Euscorpius. 2016 (220): 1–133. doi:10.18590/euscorpius.2016.vol2016.iss220.1.
- ^ a b “Chaerilus“. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ Jonathan A. Coddington; Gonzalo Giribet; Mark S. Harvey; Lorenzo Prendini; David E. Walter (2004). “Arachnida”. In Joel Cracraft; Michael J. Donoghue (eds.). Assembling the Tree of Life. Oxford University Press. pp. 296–318. ISBN 9780195172348.
- ^ Jan Ove Rein (2025). “Chaerilidae Pocock, 1893”. The Scorpion Files. Retrieved 3 November 2025.
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