HOLOTYPE:  Vaejovis crassimanus Pocock Lectotype (designated by Williams, 1971: 44): F (BMNH), “San Diego, Texas”

Original description:  Vaejovis crassimanus Pocock, 1898: 397.

Subsequent Accounts

distribution: NORTH AMERICA. México (Durango, Nuevo León), USA (southern and southwestern Texas, southern New México).

Published Records:  

notes: A syntype F (BMNH), from the same locality as the lectotype, is not referable to V. crassimanus (Williams, 1971).

Sissom and Hendrickson 2005 Key to the Vaejovid Scorpion Species of Northeastern México  - Dorsolateral carinae of metasoma (at least on segments I–III) with an enlarged terminal denticle; legs I–III with irregular setation (except in V. globosus, which has setal combs, – but has the enlarged terminal denticle on the metasoma); Trichobothria ib and it situated more distally, at the level of the sixth inner accessory denticle or beyond; Ventral submedian carinae of metasoma developed and usually granular, at least on segments III and IV; Metasoma with fewer setae (e.g., metasoma V ventrolateral carinae with no more than 7 setae); pedipalp chela of adult male with distinct, granular carinae; Male and female chelae with margins of chela fingers straight in lateral view; chelae of adult male and female with carinae granulose; typically with six subrows of denticles on the chela fixed finger (but sometimes with five rows); Telson vesicle with fewer than 20 pairs of setae ...........................Vaejovis crassimanus