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Taxonomy
Numerous short papers and regional studies have been published on the vaejovid fauna of the USA. However, these have mostly dealt with single species or groups of related species. Current knowledge of the diverse vaejovid fauna of Mexico is largely restricted to a monograph on the scorpion fauna of Baja California (Williams 1980). Few papers have addressed the vaejovids of the Mexican mainland since Hoffmann’s (1931) Los Scorpiones de Mexico. There may be two reasons for the paucity of comprehensive monographic syntheses of the vaejovid genera:
Although there are large holdings of vaejovid specimens in several North American collections (see Table 1 below), many currently recognized species are known from one or a few specimens, collected from an equally small number of localities, giving only a partial view of levels of endemism. Extensive fieldwork (especially within mainland Mexico) is required to obtain a better understanding of the distributions and geographical variation of currently recognized species and enable reliable diagnostic characters, invariant across the geographical range, to be identified for their delimitation. Table 1. Principal collections of Vaejovidae. Letters follow Table 1, except P = Vaejovis. Acronyms as follows: CAS = California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA; AMNH = American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY; BMNH = British Museum of Natural History, London, UK; USNM = United States National Museum, Washington, DC; MNHN = Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France; MIZT = Museo el Istituto di Zoologia Sistematica della Universitá, Turin, Italy; ZMB = Zoologisches Museum, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany; MCZ = Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; UNAM = Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico; NRS = Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden; ZMH = Zoologisches Museum Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; NMW = Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria; INDRE = Instituto Nacional de Diagnostico y Referencia Epidemilogica, Mexico City, Mexico; IPN = Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico; TMMA = Texas Memorial Museum, Austin, TX; FMNH = Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL; BYU = Brigham Young University, Provo, UT; FSCA = Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville, FL; PM = Prague Museum, Prague, Hungary; WTAMU = West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX; ANSP = Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.
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