Vaejovis carolinianus (Beauvois, 1805)

Scorpio carolinianus Beauvois, 1805: 191, pl. V, fig. 3;
Vaejovis carolinus C. L. Koch, 1842: 7, pl. CCCXXVII, fig. 759 (synonymized by Stahnke, 1974a: 135).
?Vaejovis asperulus C. L. Koch, 1842: 11, pl. CCCXXVIII, fig. 761 (synonymized by Kraepelin, 1899: 185; under doubt).
Vejovis carolinianus: Karsch, 1879b: 134-135; Muma, 1967: 14, fig. 1, 11, 12; Stahnke, 1974a: 135.
Vejovis mexicanus carolinus: Kraepelin, 1894: 202.
Vejovis carolinus: Kraepelin, 1899: 184, 185; Banks, 1900a: 425; Banks, 1900b: 541-543; Comstock, 1912: 32; Werner, 1934: 282, fig. 360; Bücherl, 1964: 61; Bücherl, 1971: 328; Taylor, 1971: 80-82 (part), fig. 1; Soleglad, 1973b: 361.
Vaejovis carolinianus: Pocock, 1902: 24; Ewing, 1928: 14; Shelley, 1975a: 8-9, 2 fig.; Shelley, 1975b: 29-30, fig. 1; Rossman, 1979: 10-12, fig. 1; Sissom & Francke, 1985: 244; Shelley, 1994a: 45, 52-54 fig. 1-3; Shelley, 1994b: 57-68, fig. 1-2; Kovarík, 1998: 146; Sissom & Jackman, 1998: 151; Sissom, 2000:539-540; Soleglad & Fet, 2003a: 8, 160, fig. 72; Soleglad & Fet, 2005: 2.
Vaejovis carolinus: Moritz & Fischer, 1980: 312 (reference to lost types); Kovarík, 1998: 146.

HOLOTYPE:  Scorpio carolinianus Beauvois Holotype: M (MNHN?), “South Carolina”, USA.
Vaejovis carolinus C. L. Koch Syntypes: 4 specimens (formerly ZMB 9; now apparently lost; Moritz & Fischer, 1980: 312), “North America, Carolina”, USA
?Vaejovis asperulus C. L. Koch Holotype: (lost), “possibly México”.

Original description:
Scorpio carolinianus Beauvois, 1805: 191, pl. V, fig. 3

Subsequent Accounts

distribution: NORTH AMERICA. USA (Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, western North Carolina, western South Carolina, Tennessee, western Virginia).

Published Records:  

notes: 
1. Kraepelin (1894) originally treated both V. asperulus and V. carolinus C. L. Koch as synonyms of V. mexicanus, retaining V. carolinus as a subspecies. The synonymy of Vaejovis asperulus has not been reviewed since.
2. The species epithets “carolinianus” and “carolinus” have been used intermittently; however, “carolinianus” belongs to the senior synonym. The formal synonymy was made only by Stahnke (1974a).
3. Vaejovis carolinianus was considered a member of the Vaejovis nitidulus group by Sissom & Francke (1985). This species seems closer to Vaejovis granulatus and related species in México than to members of the nitidulus group. Further study is required to assess the relationship of these particular mexicanus group forms to members of the nitidulus group.