Genus Urodacus Peters, 1861

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• Urodacus Peters, W. 1861. Eine neue Eintheilung der Skorpione und über die von ihm in Mossambique gesammelten Arten von Skorpionen, aus welchem hier Auszug mitgetheilt wird. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1861: 507-516 [511].

  Type species:

   Urodacus novaehollandiae Peters, 1861 by monotypy.
• Ioctonus Thorell, T. 1876. On the classification of scorpions. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 17: 1-15 [14].

  Type species:

   Ioctonus manicatus Thorell, 1876 by original designation.
• Iodacus Pocock, R.I. 1891. Notes on some scorpions collected by Mr. J.J. Walker, with descriptions of two new species and a new genus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 8: 241-247 [245].

  Type species:

   Iodacus darwinii Pocock, 1891 by monotypy.
• Hemihoplopus Birula, A. 1903. Sur un nouveau genre et une nouvelle espèce de scorpions, provenant d'Australie [Na novyy rod i novyy vid skorpionov, iz Avstralii]. pp. xxxiii-xxxiv in Salensky, W. & Schmidt, R. Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg [Yezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Imperatorskoy Akademii Nauk]. St. Petersbourg : Imprimerie de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences Vol. 8 pp. i-x11, 1-394, i-lxxxviii. [xxxiii].

  Type species:

   Hemihoplopus yaschenkoi Birula, 1903 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Pocock, R.I. 1893. Notes on the classification of scorpions, followed by some observations upon synonymy, with descriptions of new genera and species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 12: 303-330 [320] (synonymy of Iodacus with Urodacus)

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
24-Dec-2015	SCORPIONES	10-Jan-2020	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)