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Issue: Vol. 18 No. 2: 31 Dec. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-12-31
DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.18.2.7
Page range: 447-455
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All genera of the world: Order Thelyphonida (Animalia: Arthropoda: Arachnida)

Arachnology Lab and Scorpion Systematics Research Group, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024-5192, U.S.A.
Uropygi Thelyphonidae Hypoctoninae Mastigoproctinae Thelyphoninae Typopeltinae generic names synonyms type species thelyphonids vinegaroons whip scorpions

Abstract

Thirty-six genus-group names are available in the arachnid Order Thelyphonida Latreille, 1804 by the end of 2025. Thirty of these refer to currently accepted genera: 20 extant and ten extinct. Six genus-group names are in synonymy. Eighteen (60%) of the currently accepted genera were described since 1950. Thelyphonida includes 138 currently accepted species-group names (123 extant species, including three extant subspecies elevated to the rank of species herein, and 15 extinct species) and a nomen dubium. The phylogeny and suprageneric classification of the order remain poorly understood and several subfamilies appear to be paraphyletic. The systematics of Asian thelyphonids lags far behind that of New World thelyphonids.

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