Diplocentridae

Diplocentridae is a family of scorpions. The roughly 120 species are mostly native to the New World, except for genus Nebo, which is distributed in the Middle East.^[1]

Diplocentridae Temporal range: Paleogene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Museum specimen of Nebo hierichonticus from Israel
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Scorpiones
Superfamily:	Scorpionoidea
Family:	Diplocentridae Karsch, 1880
Genera
about 9, see text

A 2003 study suggests that this family is better treated as a subfamily of the Scorpionidae.^[2]

Taxa include:

• Subfamily Diplocentrinae Karsch, 1880
  • Bioculus Stahnke, 1968
  • Cazierius Francke, 1978
  • Didymocentrus Kraepelin, 1905
  • Diplocentrus Peters, 1861
  • Heteronebo Pocock, 1899
  • Kolotl Santibáñez-López, et al., 2014^[1]
  • Oiclus Simon, 1880
  • Tarsoporosus Francke, 1978
• Subfamily Nebinae Kraepelin, 1905
  • Nebo Simon, 1878