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Buthidae

The Buthidae are the largest family of scorpions, containing about 100 genera and 1300 species as of 2025. A few very large genera (Ananteris, Centruroides, Compsobuthus, or Tityus) are known, but a high number of species-poor or monotypic ones also exist. New taxa are being described at a rate of several new species per year. They have a cosmopolitan…

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MicrotityusMicrobuthusFattail scorpionsApistobuthusParabuthus
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Toxicity and relationship with humans

AndroctonusHottentottaLeiurusBmKAEPMesobuthus martensii
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FamilyScorpionsGeneraSpeciesAnanteris
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Buthus occitanusLeiurus quinquestriatus
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related to List of genera and number of species · 129
Buthidae → Aegaeobuthus Kovarik, Afroisometrus Kovarik, Afrolychas Kovarik, Akentrobuthus Lamoral, Alayotityus Armas, Amitai, Androctonus Ehrenberg, Anomalobuthus Kraepelin, Apistobuthus Finnegan, Archaeoananteroides Lourenço, Australobuthus Locket, Babycurus Karsch, Baloorthochirus Kovarik, Baptista, Barbaracurus Kovarik, Bastawade, Birulatus Vachon, Burmese, Buthacus Birula, Butheoloides Hirst
related to Description · 20
Buthidae → Androctonus, Apistobuthus, Centruroides, Chactidae, Few Buthidae, Isometrus, Lychas, Microbuthus, Microtityus, More, Most, Old World, Parabuthus, Some, The, The Buthidae, The Chaerilidae, Their, Uroplectes, Vaejovidae
related to Toxicity and relationship with humans · 13
Buthidae → Androctonus, BmKAEP, Centruroides, Cuban, Hottentotta, Human, Leiurus, Mesobuthus, Parabuthus, Rhopalurus, Scorpions, The, Tityus
related to Mechanism of toxicity · 10
Buthidae → Africa/Asia, Americas, It, Many, Na, New World Buthids, Old World, Other, Studied Buthidae, The Na

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family species genera scorpions centruroides tityus koch toxins found members known androctonus leiurus parabuthus superfamily number humans compsobuthus pocock kraepelin

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Buthidaerelated to DescriptionFew Buthidae0.60section
Buthidaerelated to DescriptionMicrotityus0.60section
Buthidaerelated to DescriptionMicrobuthus0.60section
Buthidaerelated to DescriptionThe0.60section
Buthidaerelated to DescriptionAndroctonus0.60section
Buthidaerelated to DescriptionApistobuthus0.60section
Buthidaerelated to DescriptionCentruroides0.60section
Buthidaerelated to DescriptionParabuthus0.60section
Buthidaerelated to DescriptionMost0.60section
Buthidaerelated to DescriptionSome0.60section
Buthidaerelated to DescriptionVaejovidae0.60section
Buthidaerelated to DescriptionThe Chaerilidae0.60section

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