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Family of scorpions From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Diplocentridae is a family of scorpions. The roughly 120 species are mostly native to the New World, except for genus Nebo, which is distributed in the Middle East.[1]
Diplocentridae Temporal range: | |
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Museum specimen of Nebo hierichonticus from Israel | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Scorpiones |
Superfamily: | Scorpionoidea |
Family: | Diplocentridae Karsch, 1880 |
Genera | |
about 9, see text |
A 2003 study suggests that this family is better treated as a subfamily of the Scorpionidae.[2]
Taxa include:
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