Diplocentridae

Diplocentridae is a family of scorpions. The roughly 120 species are mostly native to the New World, except for genus Nebo, which is distributed in the Middle East.

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KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassArachnida
OrderScorpiones
FamilyDiplocentridae

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Specimen records: 9
Family: Diplocentridae
Collections: IIZD-UASLP, MCZ, FMNH
Recorded in: Mexico, United States, MéXico, Belize, Haiti, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Netherlands

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Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: scorpion
Image: Scorpionidae - Nebo hierichonticus.jpg

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taxon name: Diplocentridae
taxon rank: family
topic's main category: Category:Diplocentridae
Commons category: Diplocentridae

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Diplocentridae is a family of scorpions. The roughly 120 species are mostly native to the New World, except for genus Nebo, which is distributed in the Middle East.

A 2003 study suggests that this family is better treated as a subfamily of the Scorpionidae.

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