Smeringurus

Smeringurus is a small genus of scorpions native to Mexico and the southwestern United States within the family Vaejovidae.^[1][2] It is closely related to the genus Paruroctonus, of which it was formerly considered a subgenus.^[3][4]

Smeringurus
Smeringurus vachoni
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Scorpiones
Family:	Vaejovidae
Genus:	Smeringurus Haradon, 1983
Species
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Species

List according to The Scorpion Files:^[5]

• Smeringurus aridus (Soleglad, 1972)
• Smeringurus grandis (Williams, 1970)
• Smeringurus mesaensis (Stahnke, 1957)
• Smeringurus vachoni (Stahnke, 1961)

References

1. Soleglad, Michael E.; Fet, Victor. "Contributions to Scorpion Systematics. III. Subfamilies Smeringurinae and Syntropinae (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae)" (PDF). Marshall University. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
2. Jean-Luc E. Cartron; Gerardo Ceballos; Richard Stephen Felger (25 August 2005). Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Conservation in Northern Mexico. Oxford University Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-19-534812-5.
3. Haradon (1983). "Smeringurus, a new subgenus of Paruroctonus Werner (Scorpiones, Vaejovidae)". Journal of Arachnology: 251–270.
4. Merrett, Norman I. Platnick. Ed. by P. (1997). Advances in spider taxonomy : 1992-1995 ; with redescriptions 1940-1980. New York: The New York Entomology Society. ISBN 9780913424247. Smeringurus has been treated as a separate genus (Stockwell, 1992), without data for justification beyond that provided originally by Haradon. We feel that the situation requires further study, but have listed Smeringurus as a separate genus here.
5. "The Scorpion Files - Vaejovidae".