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Chaerilus
Sign in to saveChaerilus 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.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 9
- Family
- Chaerilidae
- Collections
- MCZ, FMNH
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Laos, India, Singapore, Indonesia, Zambia
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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.
==Description== Total length is 15 to 75.4 mm.
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