Species Urodacus yaschenkoi (Birula, 1903)
- Hemihoplopus yaschenkoi 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 data:
Holotype ZIN, Killalpaninna [Etadunna], South Australia. - Urodacus granifrons Kraepelin, K. 1916. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 4. Scolopendriden und Scorpione. Arkiv för Zoologi 10(2): 1-43 [39] [junior homonym of Urodacus granifrons Pocock, 1898].
Type data:
Holotype NHRM ♀, Broome, Western Australia, Australia. - Urodacus kraepelini Glauert, L. 1963. Notes on Urodacus scorpions. Western Australian Naturalist 8: 132-135 [134] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Urodacus granifrons Kraepelin, 1916].
Type data:
Syntype(s). - Urodacus fossor Kraepelin, K. 1916. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 4. Scolopendriden und Scorpione. Arkiv för Zoologi 10(2): 1-43 [36].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown 1♀, Broome, Western Australia, Australia; NHRM 1♀, Streeters Station, Western Australia, Australia. - Urodacus kraepelini Takashima, H. 1945. On the scorpions of eastern Asia. Acta Arachnologica 9: 68-106 [87] [nom. nov. for Urodacus granifrons Kraepelin, 1916].
Type data:
Syntype(s).
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Koch, L.E. 1977. The taxonomy, geographic distribution and evolutionary radiation of Australo-Papuan scorpions. Records of the Western Australian Museum 5: 83-367 [292] (synonymy of U. granifrons, U. kraepelini, U. fossor and U. kraepelini with H. yaschenkoi)
Introduction
Luna-Ramirez et al (2017) provided evidence that Urodacus yaschenkoi is likely to be a species complex with up to three putative taxa.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tanami (TAN)
General References
Luna-Ramirez, K., Miller, A.D. & Rašić, G. 2017. Genetic and morphological analyses indicate that the Australian endemic scorpion Urodacus yaschenkoi (Scorpiones: Urodacidae) is a species complex. PeerJ 5: e2759
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-Dec-2015 | SCORPIONES | 05-Sep-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |