Ananteridae Pocock, 1900

Byg, Eric Ythier, 2024, A new high-altitude scorpion species of the genus Ananteris Thorell, 1891 (Scorpiones: Ananteridae) from the Pico da Neblina, Brazil, Faunitaxys 12 (19), pp. 1-9 : 3

Family Ananteridae Pocock, 1900 , stat. n.

Diagnosis. – Scorpions of very small to small size (9 to 41 mm); pectines without fulcra in most cases (except in a few Tityobuthus species); pedipalp chela fingers with 6 or 7 longitudinal rows of granules; median ocular tubercle very distinctly anterior to the center of carapace; granulation generally weak to moderate; carination weakly marked on carapace, tergites with a median carina only, weak to moderate; telson with a fusiform shape in most cases, sometimes bulbous but with aculeus always shorter than vesicle; subaculear tooth usually strong, with a spinoid or rhomboid shape; tibial spurs present in the majority of species of all genera (except in a few Tityobuthus species); secondary sexual dimorphism generally weak, most species having a similar morphology between males and females; trichobothrial pattern orthobothriotaxic, of type beta in most genera (except Tityobuthus , Troglotityobuthus and † Palaeoananteris , with an alpha disposition).

Composition of the family Ananteridae stat. n. (in order of description)

- Ananteris Thorell, 1891 ( Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa- Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela)

- Tityobuthus Pocock, 1893 ( Madagascar)

- Ananteroides Borelli, 1911 ( Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania)

- Lychasioides Vachon, 1974 ( Cameroon)

- Himalayotityobuthus Lourenço, 1997 ( India, Nepal)

- † Palaeotityobuthus Lourenço & Weitschat, 2000 (Baltic amber)

- Troglotityobuthus Lourenço, 2000 ( Madagascar)

- † Palaeoananteris Lourenço & Weitschat, 2001 (Baltic amber)

- Microananteris Lourenço, 2003 ( French Guiana)

- † Archaeoananteroides Lourenço, 2016 (Burmese amber)