Isometrus

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Isometrus is a genus of scorpion belonging and being eponymous to the family Buthidae.^[1]^[2] Some species are currently assigned to the genus Reddyanus.^[3]

Phylum:Arthropoda

Subphylum:Chelicerata

Class:Arachnida

Order:Scorpiones

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Isometrus

Isometrus maculatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Scorpiones
Family:	Buthidae
Genus:	Isometrus Ehrenberg, 1828
Type species
Scorpio maculatus De Geer, 1778
Diversity
29 Species
Synonyms
Closotrichus Tikader & Bastawade, 1983 Buthus (Isometrus) Ehrenberg in Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1828 Isometrus (Isometrus) Vachon, 1972 Isometrus (Raddyanus [sic]) Tikader & Bastawade, 1983 Isometrus (Closotrichus) Tikader & Bastawade, 1983

Distribution

The species of this genus are found in south and southeast Asia and in Oceania, with the exception of Isometrus maculatus which is pantropical.^[4]

Current species

Isometrus adviteeya Deshpande, Gowande, Dandekar, Joshi, Bastawade & Sulakhe, 2024^[5]
Isometrus amboli Sulakhe, 2020
Isometrus anamalaiensis Deshpande, Gowande, Dandekar, Joshi, Bastawade & Sulakhe, 2024^[6]
Isometrus antillanus Thorell, 1876
Isometrus armatus Pocock, 1891
Isometrus atherii Amir & Kamaluddin, 2008
Isometrus atomarius Simon, 1884
Isometrus bituberculatus Pocock, 1891
Isometrus chinensis Karsch, 1879
Isometrus devillei Becker, 1880
Isometrus feae Thorell, 1889
Isometrus formosus Pocock, 1894
Isometrus garyi Lourenço & Huber, 2002
Isometrus gracilis Thorell, 1876
Isometrus hainanensis Lourenço, Qi & Zhu, 2005
Isometrus infuscatus Pocock, 1891
Isometrus isadensis Tikader & Bastawade, 1983
Isometrus kovariki Sulakhe, Dandekar, Mukherjee, Pandey, Ketkar, Padhye & Bastawade, 2020
Isometrus lao Lourenço & Leguin, 2012
Isometrus liaqatii Amir & Kamaluddin, 2008
Isometrus lithophilis Deshpande, Gowande, Dandekar, Joshi, Bastawade & Sulakhe, 2024^[7]
Isometrus maculatus (DeGeer, 1778)
Isometrus mesor Simon, 1884
Isometrus palani Deshpande, Gowande, Dandekar, Joshi, Bastawade & Sulakhe, 2024^[8]
Isometrus pallidimanus Karsch, 1879
Isometrus papuensis Werner, 1916
Isometrus phipsoni Oates, 1888
Isometrus sonticus Karsch, 1879
Isometrus tamhini Sulakhe, Dandekar, Padhye & Bastawade, 2020
Isometrus thenmala Deshpande, Gowande, Dandekar, Joshi, Bastawade & Sulakhe, 2024^[9]
Isometrus thorellii Koch & Keyserling, 1885
Isometrus thurstoni Pocock, 1893
Isometrus thwaitesi Pocock, 1897
Isometrus weberi Karsch, 1882

Former species

All species are assigned to Reddyanus.

Isometrus acanthurus Pocock, 1899
Isometrus assamensis Oates, 1888
Isometrus basilicus Karsch, 1879
Isometrus besucheti Vachon, 1982
Isometrus bilyi Kovařík, 2003
Isometrus brachycentrus Pocock, 1899
Isometrus corbeti Tikader & Batawade, 1983
Isometrus deharvengi Lourenço & Duhem, 2010
Isometrus heimi Vachon, 1976
Isometrus khammamensis Kovařík, 2003
Isometrus krasenskyi Kovařík, 1998
Isometrus kurkai Kovařík, 1997
Isometrus loebli Vachon, 1982
Isometrus melanodactylus (L. Koch, 1867)
Isometrus navaiae Kovařík, 1998
Isometrus petrzelkai Kovařík, 2003
Isometrus problematicus Kovařík, 2003
Isometrus rigidulus Pocock, 1897
Isometrus tibetanus Lourenço & Zhu, 2008
Isometrus vittatus Pocock, 1900
Isometrus zideki Kovařík, 1994

References

[1]
"A new species of Isometrus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from southern India". Euscorpius - Occasional Publications in Scorpiology. 2020, No. 310. Retrieved 2021-08-28.
[2]
"A review of the genus Isometrus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) with descriptions of four new species from Asia and Australia". Euscorpius — Occasional Publications in Scorpiology. 2003, No. 10. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
[3]
Kovařík, František; Šťáhlavský, František (2019-12-07). "Revision of the genus Reddyanus from Southeast Asia, with description of five new species from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam (Scorpiones: Buthidae)". Euscorpius. 2019 (295): 1–45. doi:10.18590/euscorpius.2019.vol2019.iss295.1. S2CID 214363192. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
[4]
Charles University; Kovařík, František; Lowe, Graeme; Monell Chemical Senses Center; Ranawana, Kithsiri B.; University of Peradeniya; Hoferek, David; Jayarathne, V. A. Sanjeewa; University of Peradeniya (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. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
[5]
Shubhankar Deshpande, Gaurang Gowande, Nikhil Dandekar, Mihir Joshi, Deshabhushan Bastawade and Shauri Sulakhe. 2024. A Baffling Case of Morphological, Molecular and Ecological Discordance in Isometrus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) with the Description of Five New Species from southern India. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 308; 71-98. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2023.11.001
[6]
Shubhankar Deshpande, Gaurang Gowande, Nikhil Dandekar, Mihir Joshi, Deshabhushan Bastawade and Shauri Sulakhe. 2024. A Baffling Case of Morphological, Molecular and Ecological Discordance in Isometrus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) with the Description of Five New Species from southern India. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 308; 71-98. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2023.11.001
[7]
Shubhankar Deshpande, Gaurang Gowande, Nikhil Dandekar, Mihir Joshi, Deshabhushan Bastawade and Shauri Sulakhe. 2024. A Baffling Case of Morphological, Molecular and Ecological Discordance in Isometrus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) with the Description of Five New Species from southern India. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 308; 71-98. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2023.11.001
[8]
Shubhankar Deshpande, Gaurang Gowande, Nikhil Dandekar, Mihir Joshi, Deshabhushan Bastawade and Shauri Sulakhe. 2024. A Baffling Case of Morphological, Molecular and Ecological Discordance in Isometrus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) with the Description of Five New Species from southern India. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 308; 71-98. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2023.11.001
[9]
Shubhankar Deshpande, Gaurang Gowande, Nikhil Dandekar, Mihir Joshi, Deshabhushan Bastawade and Shauri Sulakhe. 2024. A Baffling Case of Morphological, Molecular and Ecological Discordance in Isometrus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) with the Description of Five New Species from southern India. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 308; 71-98. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2023.11.001

Ehrenberg, 1828 : Arachnoidea, Scorpiones. in Hemprich & Ehrenberg, Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones animalium evertebratorum sepositis insectis quae ex itinere per Africanum borealem et Asiam occidentalem. Friderici Guielmi Hemprich et Christiani Godofredi Ehrenberg, studio novae aut illustratae redierunt. Percensuit editit Dr. C.G. Ehrehberg. Decas I. Berolini ex officina Academica, venditur a Mittlero, Berlin.
Sulakhe, Shauri & Dandekar, Nikhil & Mukherjee, Shomen & Pandey, Malay & Ketkar, Makarand & Padhye, Anand & Bastawade, Deshabhushan. (2020). A new species of Isometrus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from southern India. 310. 1-13.

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