Biology:Mayacentrum

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Short description: Genus of whip scorpions

Mayacentrum
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Uropygi
Family: Thelyphonidae
Genus: Mayacentrum
Víquez & Armas, 2006
Type species
Mayacentrum tantalus
(Roewer, 1954)
Species

3, see text

Mayacentrum is a genus of Thelyphonid whip scorpions, first described by Víquez and Armas in 2006.[1]

Species

(As of October 2022), the World Uropygi Catalog accepts the following three species:[2]

  • Mayacentrum guatemalae Víquez & Armas, 2006 – Belize, Guatemala
  • Mayacentrum pijol Víquez & Armas, 2006 – Guatemala, Honduras
  • Mayacentrum tantalus (Roewer, 1954) – El Salvador, Guatemala

References

  1. Viquez, Carlos; Armas, Luis F. (2006). "Un nuevo género y dos nuevas especies de vinagrillos centroamericanos (Arachnida: Thelyphonida)". Boletin de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 38: 37–41. 
  2. "Mayacentrum Víquez and Armas, 2006". Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. https://wac.nmbe.ch/order/uropygi/species/92. 

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