Heterometrus laevigatus (Thorell, 1876)

FIGURE 23. Heterometrus Ehrenberg, 1828, carapace, dorsal aspect. A, B. Heterometrus laevigatus (‘Thorell,
1876), comb. nov. et stat. rev., A. d (AMNH), Thale Ban, Thailand, B. 2 (AMNH), Khao Pu-Khao Ya, Thai-
land. 

FIGURE 50, Heterometrus Ehrenberg, 1828, legs I-IV, tibiae, basitarsi and telotarsi, ventral aspect. A-D. Het-
erometrus laevigatus (Thorell, 1876), comb. nov. et stat. rev., 6 (AMNH), Thale Ban, Thailand. 

D. Heterometrus laevigatus
(Thorell, 1876), comb. nov. et stat. rev., d (AMNH), Thale Ban, Thailand. 

FIGURE 166. Heterometrus laevigatus (Thorell, 1876), comb. nov. et stat. rev. d (AMNH), Thale Ban, Thai-
land, pedipalp patella: A. dorsal, B. retrolateral, and C. ventral aspects. Scale bar = 5 mm.

Figures 1–3: Heterometrus laevigatus, holotype subadult female (NMG 90); scale bar = 10mm. Figure 1. Dorsal aspect. Figure 2. Ventral
aspect. Figure 3. Label.

 Figures 22–23. H. minotaurus, male (22)

H. minotaurus, male (32,42,52)

 H. cimrmani from Trang. Figures 60–61.
H. minotaurus from Surat Thani.

Reference

SYSTEMATIC REVISION OF THE ASIAN FOREST SCORPIONS (HETEROMETRINAE SIMON, 1879), 
REVISED SUPRAGENERIC CLASSIFICATION OF SCORPIONIDAE LATREILLE, 1802, AND REVALIDATION OF RUGODENTIDAE BASTAWADE ET AL., 2005 
LORENZO PRENDINI 
Scorpion Systematics Research Group, 
Division of Invertebrate Zoology, 
American Museum of Natural History 
STEPHANIE F. LORIA 
Scorpion Systematics Research Group, 
Division of Invertebrate Zoology; 
Richard Gilder Graduate School, 
American Museum of Natural History 

 

А Review of Heterometrus in Thailand
(Scorpiones: Scorpionidae)
Kazusa Kawai, Thornthan Unnahachote,
Yossaphon Suttisatid and Victoria Tang
June 2023 — No. 373