Hadogenes

{{Short description|Genus of scorpions}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Hadogenes troglodytes soutpansberg.jpg | image_caption = ''[[Hadogenes troglodytes]]'' in [[Soutpansberg]], South Africa | taxon = Hadogenes | authority = Kraepelin, 1894 | diversity = 18 species (see [[#Species|text]]) }}

'''''Hadogenes''''' is a [[genus]] of African [[scorpion]]s (including the world's longest, ''[[Hadogenes troglodytes]]'').<ref>{{cite book |author=Jonathan Leeming |year=2003 |title=Scorpions of Southern Africa |publisher=Struik |isbn=978-1-86872-804-6 |chapter=Southern African species |pages=61}}</ref> This genus is distinguished by its members which have an unusually flat overall appearance that allows them to quickly get in and out of the cracks and cervices that are generally abundant in their rocky habitats. Occurring in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Members of the genus also have special claws on their [[arthropod tarsus|tarsus]] which allows them specialized maneuverability in their environments. The members of this genus have demonstrated an inability to travel across the sand and will perish in the heat when unable to find shelter for extended periods of time. The members of this genus are threatened by habitat loss due to mining as well and by poaching for the [[Wildlife trade|exotic pet trade]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hadogenes (flat rock scorpions) |url=http://www.biodiversityexplorer.info/arachnids/scorpions/liochelidae/hadogenes.htm |access-date=2022-06-05 |website=www.biodiversityexplorer.info}}</ref>

== Members == * ''[[Hadogenes bicolor]]'' Purcell, 1899 * ''[[Hadogenes gracilis]]'' Hewitt, 1909 * ''[[Hadogenes granulatus]]'' Purcell, 1901 * ''[[Hadogenes gunningi]]'' Purcell, 1899 * ''[[Hadogenes hahni]]'' Peters, 1862 * ''[[Hadogenes lawrencei]]'' Newlands, 1972 * ''[[Hadogenes longimanus]]'' Prendini, 2001 * ''[[Hadogenes minor]]'' Purcell, 1899 * ''[[Hadogenes newlandsi]]'' Prendini, 2001 * ''[[Hadogenes paucidens]]'' Pocock, 1896 * ''[[Hadogenes phyllodes]]'' Thorell, 1876 * ''[[Hadogenes polytrichobothrius]]'' Prendini, 2006 * ''[[Hadogenes soutpansbergensis]]'' Prendini, 2006 * ''[[Hadogenes tityrus]]'' Simon, 1888 * ''[[Hadogenes trichiurus]]'' Gervais, 1843 * ''[[Hadogenes troglodytes]]'' Peters, 1861 * ''[[Hadogenes zuluanus]]'' Lawrence, 1937 * ''[[Hadogenes zumpti]]'' Newlands & Cantrell, 1985<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Prendini|first=Lorenzo|date=1997|title=Redescription of Hadogenes zumpti Newlands & Cantrell 1985: An unusual rock scorpion (Scorpiones, Ischnuridae) from the Richtersveld, South Africa|journal=South African Journal of Zoology|volume=32|issue=3|pages=76–81|doi=10.1080/02541858.1997.11448434|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>Prendini, L. 2005a. Scorpion diversity and distribution in southern Africa: pattern and process. In B.A. Huber, B.J. Sinclair, and K.H. Lampe (editors), African biodiversity: molecules, organisms, ecosystems: 25–68. New York: Springer.</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

[[Category:Hormuridae]] [[Category:Scorpion genera]] [[Category:Scorpions of Africa]]