Orthochirus flavescens

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Neoscorpionina
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Kingdom: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Scorpiones Subordo: Neoscorpionina

Familia: Buthidae
Genus: Orthochirus
Species:

Orthochirus flavescens (Pocock, 1897)

Type locality: India, Karagora, Khandesh.

Lectotype: BMNH. male ♂. BMNH No. 1896.7.30.70. (lectotype Butheolus flavescens designated by Stahnke)

Butheolus flavescens Pocock, 1897: 110 (original combination)
Orthochirus flavescens (Pocock): Roewer, 1943: 208
Orthochirus luteipes Roewer, 1943: 209
- Type locality: Anamalei, Dekan, India.
  - Lectotype: SMFD. male ♂. SMFD No. 2124/21. (lectotype designated by Kovařík, 1996)

Pocock, R.I. 1897d. Descriptions of some new species of scorpions from India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 11: 102–117. Reference page.

Kovařík, F. 1996. Baloorthochirus becvari gen. et sp. n. from Pakistan, and taxonomic position of Orthochirus luteipes (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 60: 177–181. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Kovařík, F. 2004b. Revision and taxonomic position of genera Afghanorthochirus Lourenço & Vachon, Baloorthochirus Kovařík, Butheolus Simon, Nanobuthus Pocock, Orthochiroides Kovařík, Pakistanorthochirus Lourenço, and Asian Orthochirus Karsch, with descriptions of twelve new species (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Euscorpius No. 16: 1-33. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Roewer, C.F. 1943a. Über eine neuerworbene Sammlung von Skorpionen des Natur-Museums Senckenberg. Senckenbergiana 26(4): 205–244. Reference page.