Hormuridae

Hormuridae is a family of scorpions in the order Scorpiones. There are about 10 genera and more than 90 described species in Hormuridae.^[2][3]

Hormuridae
Yellow-legged tree scorpion (Opisthacanthus asper)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Scorpiones
Superfamily:	Scorpionoidea
Family:	Hormuridae Laurie, 1896[1]

Genera

These 11 genera belong to the family Hormuridae:^[4]

• Cheloctonus Pocock, 1892
• Chiromachetes Pocock, 1899
• Chiromachus Pocock, 1893
• Hadogenes Kraepelin, 1894
• Hormiops Fage, 1933
• Hormurus Thorell, 1876
• Iomachus Pocock, 1893
• Liocheles Sundevall, 1833
• Opisthacanthus Peters, 1861
• Palaeocheloctonus Lourenço, 1996
• Tibetiomachus Lourenço & Qi, 2006