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Isometrus

{{Short description|Genus of scorpions}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Scorpion-Isometrus.maculatus-03.jpg

| image_caption = Isometrus maculatus

| taxon = Isometrus

| authority = Ehrenberg, 1828

| type_species = Scorpio maculatus

| type_species_authority = De Geer, 1778

| diversity_link =

| 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

}}

Isometrus is a genus of scorpion belonging and being eponymous to the family Buthidae.{{Cite web |title=A new species of Isometrus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from southern India |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341489428 |access-date=2021-08-28 |website=Euscorpius - Occasional Publications in Scorpiology. 2020, No. 310}}{{Cite web |title=A review of the genus Isometrus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) with descriptions of four new species from Asia and Australia |url=https://mds.marshall.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1038&context=euscorpius |access-date=2021-08-30 |website=Euscorpius — Occasional Publications in Scorpiology. 2003, No. 10}} Some species are currently assigned to the genus Reddyanus.{{Cite journal |last1=Kovařík |first1=František |last2=Šťáhlavský |first2=František |date=2019-12-07 |title=Revision of the genus Reddyanus from Southeast Asia, with description of five new species from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam (Scorpiones: Buthidae) |url=https://mds.marshall.edu/euscorpius/vol2019/iss295/1 |access-date=2021-08-30 |journal=Euscorpius |volume=2019 |issue=295 |pages=1–45 |doi=10.18590/euscorpius.2019.vol2019.iss295.1|s2cid=214363192 |doi-access=free |url-access=subscription }}

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.{{Cite journal |last1=Charles University |last2=Kovařík |first2=František |last3=Lowe |first3=Graeme |last4=Monell Chemical Senses Center |last5=Ranawana |first5=Kithsiri B. |last6=University of Peradeniya |last7=Hoferek |first7=David |last8=Jayarathne |first8=V. A. Sanjeewa |last9=University of Peradeniya |date=2016 |title=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 |url=https://mds.marshall.edu/euscorpius/vol2016/iss220/1/ |access-date=2021-08-29 |journal=Euscorpius |volume=2016 |issue=220 |pages=1–133 |doi=10.18590/euscorpius.2016.vol2016.iss220.1|doi-access=free |url-access=subscription }}

Current species

  • Isometrus adviteeya Deshpande, Gowande, Dandekar, Joshi, Bastawade & Sulakhe, 2024Shubhankar 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
  • Isometrus amboli Sulakhe, 2020
  • Isometrus anamalaiensis Deshpande, Gowande, Dandekar, Joshi, Bastawade & Sulakhe, 2024Shubhankar 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
  • 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, 2024Shubhankar 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
  • Isometrus maculatus (DeGeer, 1778)
  • Isometrus mesor Simon, 1884
  • Isometrus palani Deshpande, Gowande, Dandekar, Joshi, Bastawade & Sulakhe, 2024Shubhankar 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
  • 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, 2024Shubhankar 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
  • 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.

References

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  • 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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Category:Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg