IRMNG - Leiurus Ehrenberg in Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1828

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Leiurus Ehrenberg in Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1828

IRMNG_ID

1415175 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1415175)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Buthidae Koch, 1837

Synonymised names

Leiunus Caceres, Aguilar & Meneses, 1972 · unaccepted (Incorrect subsequent spelling)

Liurus Ehrenberg, 1831 · unaccepted (Unjustified emendation)

Liurus Agassiz, 1846 · unaccepted (later usage (of unjustified...)

later usage (of unjustified emendation by Ehrenberg)

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Species Leiurus jordanensis Lourenço, Modry & Amr, 2002
Species Leiurus quinquestriatus (Ehrenberg, 1828)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Ehrenberg, C. G. & Hemprich, F. W. (1828-1831). Symbolae Physicae seu Icones et Descriptiones Animalium Evertebratorum sepositis Insectis quae ex itinere per Africam borealem et Asiam occidentalem. Berolini ex officina Academica. Unpaginated., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/189273
page(s): Arachnoidea, Plate I.; note: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48517281 [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomic remark Authority cited elsewhere as Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1829. Originally as subgenus of Androctonus (Hallan, 2000-). For dating...

Taxonomic remark Authority cited elsewhere as Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1829. Originally as subgenus of Androctonus (Hallan, 2000-). For dating and spelling, see Braunwalder, 1998. [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2023). Leiurus Ehrenberg in Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1828. Accessed at: https://irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1415175 on 2025-04-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2012-02-16 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

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Sources (13)
Notes (2)

original description Ehrenberg, C. G. & Hemprich, F. W. (1828-1831). Symbolae Physicae seu Icones et Descriptiones Animalium Evertebratorum sepositis Insectis quae ex itinere per Africam borealem et Asiam occidentalem. Berolini ex officina Academica. Unpaginated., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/189273
page(s): Arachnoidea, Plate I.; note: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48517281 [details]

basis of record Brands, S. J. (compiler). (1989-2005). Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Originally available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/; for current information, refer http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/ProjectDescription.aspx . [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

additional source Braunwalder, M.E. (1998). On publications about scorpions (Arachnida, Scorpiones) by Hemprich and Ehrenberg (1828-1831). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. 11(1): 29-35., available online at http://britishspiders.org.uk/bulletin/110106.pdf [details]

status source Francke, O.F. (2019). Conspectus Genericus Scorpionorum 1758–1985 (Arachnida: Scorpiones) updated through 2018. Zootaxa. 4657(1): 1-56., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4657.1.1 [details]

verified source for family Hallan, J. (2000-2017). Biology Catalog (2012 version), http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (as at 2012). [details]

name verified source Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

current name source Brands, S. J. (compiler). (1989-2005). Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Originally available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/; for current information, refer http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/ProjectDescription.aspx . [details]

extant flag source Hallan, J. (2000-2017). Biology Catalog (2012 version), http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (as at 2012). [details]

habitat flag source as per family [details]

original description (of Liurus Ehrenberg, 1831) Ehrenberg, C. G. & Hemprich, F. W. (1828-1831). Symbolae Physicae seu Icones et Descriptiones Animalium Evertebratorum sepositis Insectis quae ex itinere per Africam borealem et Asiam occidentalem. Berolini ex officina Academica. Unpaginated., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/189273 [details]

original description (of Liurus Agassiz, 1846) Agassiz, L. (1846). Nomenclatoris zoologici index universalis. Jent & Gassman. viii + 393 pp. [1847]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33664307 [details]

original description (of Leiunus Caceres, Aguilar & Meneses, 1972) Caceres, I.E., Aguilar, P.G. & Meneses, G.O. (1972). Escorpiones y escorpionismo en el Peru. II. Efectos del veneno del 'escorpion de los Pedregales' en la Costa Central. Revista Peruana de Entomología. 15(1): 38-43. [details]

Unreviewed

Descriptive info as subgenus of Androctonus; type is quinquestriatus (Hallan, 2000-) [details]

Taxonomic remark Authority cited elsewhere as Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1829. Originally as subgenus of Androctonus (Hallan, 2000-). For dating and spelling, see Braunwalder, 1998. [details]