Ecuador harbors one of the most diverse Neotropical scorpion faunas, hereby updated to 47
species contained within eight genera and five families, which inhabits the “Costa”(n …

The Neotropical “club-tailed” scorpions of the genus Rhopalurus Thorell, 1876, and two
related genera in family Buthidae CL Koch, 1837, ie, Physoctonus Mello-Leitão, 1934, and …

We provide a mitochondrial DNA-based phylogenetic hypothesis for 21 Tityus species
collected in Venezuela, Trinidad, Brazil and Panama, including 12 taxa known to be toxic to …

Rhopalurus junceus (Herbst 1800) is redescribed, with the designation of a neotype and the
emendation of the type locality of this scorpion, which is endemic from Cuba and widely …

Venoms from Tityus species inhabiting five endemic regions of scorpionism in Venezuela
(Andean, Perijá range, north-central, northeastern, and Guayana) and also southeast Brazil …

Diagnostic morphological differences to distinguish between two scorpion species, Tityus
ythieri Lourenço, 2007 and T. magnimanus Pocock, 1897 do not exist; moreover, the two …

Venom from male and female specimens of the medically important Venezuelan scorpion
Tityus nororientalis have been compared. Males showed a significantly higher venom yield …

The first two cases of scorpion envenoming caused by Tityus neoespartanus (Buthidae) are
described. The accidents took place within human environments (one inside a home and the …

Some contributions to the knowledge of the buthid scorpion genus Ananteris Thorell, 1891
in Colombia are herein presented, based upon the examination of over 100 specimens …

Objectives Scorpion envenomation is a common public health problem in Venezuela. We
report an envenoming case by Tityus breweri, endemic to the Guayana Shield, southeast …