Chaerilidae

Chaerilus is a genus of scorpions in the family Chaerilidae. They live in tropical parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. A fossil genus Electrochaerilus is known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber.

Chaerilidae is a family of scorpions. It contains two genera, the extant Chaerilus (Simon, 1877) and the extinct Electrochaerilus (Santiago-Blay, Fet, Soleglad & Anderson, 2004).

species of arachnid