Isometroides

Isometroides is a genus of scorpions in the Buthidae family with two species. It is endemic to, and found widely across, inland mainland Australia, and was first described by German arachnologist Eugen von Keyserling in 1885.

Species
The genus has sometimes been considered monotypic, with I. angusticaudus a synonym of I. vescus.
 * Isometroides vescus (Karsch, 1880)
 * Isometroides angusticaudus Keyserling, 1885

Distribution and habitat
Found across much of inland Australia, the scorpions occur in woodland and semi-arid country.

Behaviour
The scorpions are specialised predators of burrowing spiders.