Diplocentridae
| Diplocentridae Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
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about 9, see text | |
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.
A 2003 study suggests that this family is better treated as a subfamily of the Scorpionidae.
Taxa include:
- Subfamily Diplocentrinae Karsch, 1880
- Bioculus Stahnke, 1968
- Cazierius Francke, 1978
- Didymocentrus Kraepelin, 1905
- Diplocentrus Peters, 1861
- Heteronebo Pocock, 1899
- Kolotl Santibáñez-López, et al., 2014
- Oiclus Simon, 1880
- Tarsoporosus Francke, 1978
- Subfamily Nebinae Kraepelin, 1905
- Nebo Simon, 1878