Hadogenes

Hadogenes is a genus of large African scorpions (including the world's longest, Hadogenes troglodytes) found from South Africa up to Tanzania.[1]

Hadogenes
Hadogenes troglodytes in Soutpansberg, South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Scorpiones
Family:	Hemiscorpiidae
Genus:	Hadogenes Kraepelin, 1894
Diversity
18 species (see text)

The species in this genus are:[2]

• Hadogenes bicolor Purcell, 1899
• Hadogenes gracilis Hewitt, 1909
• Hadogenes granulatus Purcell, 1901
• Hadogenes gunningi Purcell, 1899
• Hadogenes hahni Peters, 1862
• Hadogenes lawrencei Newlands, 1972
• Hadogenes longimanus Prendini, 2001
• Hadogenes minor Purcell, 1899
• Hadogenes newlandsi Prendini, 2001
• Hadogenes paucidens Pocock, 1896
• Hadogenes phyllodes Thorell, 1876
• Hadogenes polytrichobothrius Prendini, 2006
• Hadogenes soutpansbergensis Prendini, 2006
• Hadogenes tityrus Simon, 1888
• Hadogenes trichiurus Gervais, 1843
• Hadogenes troglodytes Peters, 1861
• Hadogenes zuluanus Lawrence, 1937
• Hadogenes zumpti Newlands & Cantrell, 1985[3]

References

1. Jonathan Leeming (2003). "Southern African species". Scorpions of Southern Africa. Struik. p. 61. ISBN 978-1-86872-804-6.
2. Prendini, L. 2005a. Scorpion diversity and distribution in southern Africa: pattern and process. In B.A. Huber, B.J. Sinclair, and K.H. Lampe (editors), African biodiversity: molecules, organisms, ecosystems: 25–68. New York: Springer.
3. Prendini, Lorenzo (1997). "Redescription of Hadogenes zumpti Newlands & Cantrell 1985: An unusual rock scorpion (Scorpiones, Ischnuridae) from the Richtersveld, South Africa". South African Journal of Zoology. 32: 76–81. doi:10.1080/02541858.1997.11448434.