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After Prendini, 2000

<==o Scorpionidae Leach, 1815 [non? Latreille, 1802] (varsinaiset skorpionit)
   |--+--o Scorpio Linnaeus, 1758; Olig. R. Eu., R. NAf.
   |  |  |-- †S. schweiggeri Holl; Olig. NEu.
   |  |  |-- †S. zeuneri Hadzi; Mio. CEu.
   |  |  |-- S. europaeus Linne, 1758 (non 1754) [S. maurus] (euroopanskorpioni)
   |  |  |-- S. maurus
   |  |  `== other Recent species of Scorpio?
   |  `--o Opisthophthalmus Koch, C.L., 1837
   |     |-- O. boehmi
   |     `--+-- O. capensis
   |        `-- O. holmi
   `--+--o Heterometrus Ehrenberg, 1828
      |  |-- H. spinifer
      |  `-- H. swammerdami
      `--o Pandinus Thorell, 1876
         |-- P. dictator
         `--+-- P. cavimanus
            `-- P. imperator

Reference(s):

Stockwell, S. A., 1996: Scorpionidae.
–iNet: The Tree of Life Project: http://wrbu.si.edu/www/stockwell/phylogeny/scorpionoidea/scorpionidae/scorpionidae.html

Stockwell, S. A., 1996: Scorpionoidea.
–iNet: The Tree of Life Project: http://wrbu.si.edu/www/stockwell/phylogeny/scorpionoidea/scorpionoidea.html

Størmer, L., Petrunkevitch, A. & Hedgpeth, J. W., 1955: Arthropoda 2 - Chelicerata with sections on Pycnogonida and Palaeoisopus. xvii-181
in Moore, R. C. (ed.): Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology - Part P
--Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, 1955

Prendini, L., 2000: Phylogeny and classification of the superfamily Scorpionoidea Latreille, 1802 (Chelicerata, Scorpiones): An exemplar approach.
--Cladistics: Vol. 16, #1, pp. 1-78

 

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