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Order


   Paleophonus sp., an aquatic scorpion from the Upper Silurian [Loc: New York:  Herkimer Co.-      
  Bertie Group, Fiddlers Green Dolomite, (Phelps Waterlime Member).  Age:  410 million years].      
This species was found in association with eurypterids ("sea scorpions"), an extinct group of          
chelicerates that shared common ancestry with scorpions.                                                             

Fifty-nine species and subspecies of scorpions are known from California:

Order SCORPIONES Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1837

    Family BUTHIDAE Simon 1879

    Family IURIDAE Thorell 1876

      Subfamily Hadrurinae Stahnke 1974

        Genus Anuroctonus Pocock 1893

          • Anuroctonus phaiodactylus (Wood 1863)

        Genus Hadurus Thorell 1876

    Family SUPERSTITIONIDAE Stahnke 1940

    Family VAEJOVIDAE Thorell 1876

        Genus Paruroctonus Werner 1934

          • Paruroctonus arenicola nudipes Haradon 1984
          • Paruroctonus baergi (Williams and Hadley 1967)
          • Paruroctonus bantai bantai (Gertsch and Soleglad 1966)
          • Paruroctonus bantai saratoga Haradon 1984
          • Paruroctonus becki (Gertsch and Allred 1965)
          • Paruroctonus boreas (Girard 1854)
          • Paruroctonus borregoensis borregoensis Williams 1972
          • Paruroctonus hirsutipes Haradon 1984
          • Paruroctonus luteolus (Gertsch and Soleglad 1966)
          • Paruroctonus maritimus Williams 1989
          • Paruroctonus marksi Haradon 1984
          • Paruroctonus shulovi nevadae Haradon 1985
          • Paruroctonus shulovi shulovi (Williams 1970)
          • Paruroctonus silvestrii (Borelli 1909)
          • Paruroctonus simulatus Haradon 1984
          • Paruroctonus variabilis Hjelle 1982
          • Paruroctonus xanthus (Gertsch and Soleglad 1966)

        Genus Pseudouroctonus Stahnke 1974

          • Pseudouroctonus andreas (Gertsch and Soleglad 1972)

          • Pseudouroctonus angelenus (Gertsch and Soleglad 1972)
          • Pseudouroctonus bogerti (Gertsch and Soleglad 1972)
          • Pseudouroctonus iviei Gertsch and Soleglad 1972
          • Pseudouroctonus glimmei (Hjelle 1972)
          • Pseudouroctonus minimus minimus Kraepelin 1911
          • Pseudouroctonus minimus castaneus Gertsch & Soleglad 1972
          • Pseudouroctonus minimus thompsoni Gertsch & Soleglad 1972
          • Vaejovis hirsuticauda Banks 1928
          • Vaejovis mumai Sissom 1993
          • Vaejovis puritanus Gertsch 1958
          • Vaejovis spicatus Haradon 1974
          • Vaejovis spinigerus (Wood) 1863
          • Vaejovis waeringi Williams 1970

Scorpion biology