Chaerilus

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. Orthobothriotaxy is type B. Pedipalp patella with 3 ventral trichobothria and pedipalp femur with 9 trichobothria. Ventral edge of cheliceral movable finger is crenulated. Ventrum of cheliceral fixed finger with denticle. Hemisperatophore fusiform. Pedipalp chela exhibits "8-carinae" configuration. Fifth metasomal segment consists with a single ventral carina. Legs are without tibial spurs. However prolateral and retrolateral pedal have spurs. Telson is without a subaculear tubercle.

Species
It contains the following species:


 * Chaerilus agilis Pocock, 1899
 * Chaerilus andamanensis Lourenço, Duhem & Leguin, 2011
 * Chaerilus annapurna Lourenço & Duhem, 2010
 * Chaerilus anneae Lourenço, 2012
 * Chaerilus assamensis Kraepelin, 1913
 * Chaerilus borneensis Simon, 1880
 * Chaerilus cavernicola Pocock, 1894
 * Chaerilus celebensis Pocock, 1894
 * Chaerilus ceylonensis Pocock, 1894
 * Chaerilus chapmani Vachon & Lourenço, 1985
 * Chaerilus cimrmani Kovařík, 2012
 * Chaerilus conchiformus Zhu, Han & Lourenço, 2008
 * Chaerilus dibangvalleycus Bastawade, 2006
 * Chaerilus granulatus Kovarík, Lowe, Hoferek, Forman & Král, 2015
 * Chaerilus hofereki Kovarik, Kral, Korinkova & Lerma, 2014
 * Chaerilus insignis Pocock, 1894
 * Chaerilus julietteae Lourenço, 2011
 * Chaerilus kampuchea Lourenço, 2012
 * Chaerilus laevimanus Pocock, 1899
 * Chaerilus laoticus Lourenço & Zhu, 2008
 * Chaerilus lehtrarensis Khatoon, 1999
 * Chaerilus longimanus Kovarík, Lowe, Hoferek, Forman & Král, 2015
 * Chaerilus mainlingensis Di & Zhu, 2009
 * Chaerilus petrzelkai Kovařík, 2000
 * Chaerilus ojangureni Kovařík, 2005
 * Chaerilus phami Lourenço, 2011
 * Chaerilus philippinus Lourenço & Ythier, 2008
 * Chaerilus pictus (Pocock, 1890)
 * Chaerilus rectimanus Pocock, 1899
 * Chaerilus robinsoni Hirst, 1911
 * Chaerilus sabinae Lourenço, 1995
 * Chaerilus seiteri Kovařík, 2012
 * Chaerilus sejnai Kovařík, 2005
 * Chaerilus solegladi Kovařík, 2012
 * Chaerilus spinatus Lourenço & Duhem, 2010
 * Chaerilus telnovi Lourenço, 2009
 * Chaerilus terueli Kovařík, 2012
 * Chaerilus tessellatus Qi, Zhu & Lourenço, 2005
 * Chaerilus thai Lourenço, Sun & Zhu, 2010
 * Chaerilus tichyi Kovařík, 2000
 * Chaerilus tricostatus Pocock, 1899
 * Chaerilus truncatus Karsch, 1879
 * Chaerilus tryznai Kovařík, 2000
 * Chaerilus variegatus Simon, 1877
 * Chaerilus vietnamicus Lourenço & Zhu, 2008
 * Chaerilus wrzecionkoi Kovařík, 2012