Chaerilobuthus gigantosternum Lourenço 2016 (scorpion)

Arachnida - Scorpiones - Pseudochactidae

Full reference: W. R. Lourenço. 2016. A new genus and three new species of scorpions from Cretaceous Burmese amber (Scorpiones: Chaerilobuthidae: Palaeoeuscorpiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 25:67-74

Belongs to Chaerilobuthus according to Q. Xuan et al. 2025

See also Lourenço 2016

Sister taxa: Chaerilobuthus birmanicus, Chaerilobuthus brandti, Chaerilobuthus brigittemuellerae, Chaerilobuthus bruckschi, Chaerilobuthus complexus, Chaerilobuthus enigmaticus, Chaerilobuthus hansgeorgmuelleri, Chaerilobuthus knodelorum, Chaerilobuthus longiaculeus, Chaerilobuthus meggeri, Chaerilobuthus petersi, Chaerilobuthus schmidti, Chaerilobuthus schwarzi, Chaerilobuthus serratus, Chaerilobuthus staxi

Type specimen: GPIH 4566, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (GPIH collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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