Genus Isometrus Ehrenberg, 1828

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• Isometrus Ehrenberg, C.G. 1828. Arachnoidea, Scorpiones. pp. 1-12 in Hemprich, F.G. & Ehrenberg, C.G. (eds). Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones animalium evertebratorum: sepositis insectis qua ex itinere perafricam borealem et asiam occidentalem. Berolini: ex Officina Academia Venditur a Mittlero. [3] [first introduced as a subgenus of Buthus Leach, 1815].

  Type species:

   Buthus (Isometrus) filum Ehrenberg, 1828 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Braunwalder, M.E. & Fet, V. 1998. On publications about scorpions (Arachnida, Scorpiones) by Hemprich and Ehrenberg (1828-1831). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 29-35 [31].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, NE coastal
• Papua New Guinea

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)