{{Short description|Genus of scorpions}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Shield-tailed Scorpion.jpg | image_caption = Apistobuthus pterygocercus | taxon = Apistobuthus | authority = Finnegan, 1932 | subdivision_ranks = Species&nbsp;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ntnu.no/ub/scorpion-files/buthidae.php |title=Buthidae C.L. Koch, 1837 |work=The Scorpion Files |author=Jan Ove Rein |year=2012 |publisher=Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet |accessdate=May 3, 2013}}</ref> | subdivision = *''Apistobuthus pterygocercus'' <small>Finnegan, 1932</small> *''Apistobuthus susanae'' <small>Lourenço, 1998</small> }}

'''''Apistobuthus''''' is a genus of scorpions in the family Buthidae. It was described by Susan Finnegan in 1932,<ref>{{cite journal |author=Susan Finnegan |year=1932 |title=Report on the scorpions collected by Mr. Bertram Thomas in Arabia |journal=Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology |volume=38 |issue=258 |pages=91–98 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1932.tb00695.x}}</ref> and was for a long time considered to be monotypic, containing the single species ''A.&nbsp;pterygocercus''. In 1998, a second species, ''A.&nbsp;susanae'', was described by Wilson Lourenço; its specific epithet commemorates Susan Finnegan.<ref>{{cite journal |author=W. R. Lourenço |year=1998 |title=A new species of ''Apistobuthus'' Finnegan, 1932 (Chelicerata, Scorpiones, Buthidae) from Iran |journal=Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg |volume=12 |issue=157 |pages=237–244}}</ref> ''A.&nbsp;susanae'' differs from ''A.&nbsp;pterygocercus'' in having stouter legs and pedipalps, among other characteristics. Both species are highly venomous and the second segment of their tail is wider than the others.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Shahrokh Navidpoura and Graeme Lowe |year=2009 |title=Revised diagnosis and redescription of ''Apistobuthus susanae'' (Scorpiones, Buthidae) |journal=Journal of Arachnology |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=45–59 |doi=10.1636/H08-44.1|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/229140 }}</ref>

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Category:Buthidae

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