Isometrus is a genus of scorpion belonging and being eponymous to the family Buthidae. Some species are currently assigned to the genus Reddyanus.
Distribution The species of this genus are found in south and southeast Asia and in Oceania, with the exception of Isometrus maculatus which is pantropical.
Current species Isometrus adviteeya Deshpande, Gowande, Dandekar, Joshi, Bastawade & Sulakhe, 2024Shubhankar Deshpande, Gaurang Gowande, Nikhil Dandekar, Mihir Joshi, Deshabhushan Bastawade and Shauri Sulakhe. 2024. A Baffling Case of Morphological, Molecular and Ecological Discordance in Isometrus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) with the Description of Five New Species from southern India. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 308; 71-98. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2023.11.001 Isometrus amboli Sulakhe, 2020 Isometrus anamalaiensis Deshpande, Gowande, Dandekar, Joshi, Bastawade & Sulakhe, 2024Shubhankar Deshpande, Gaurang Gowande, Nikhil Dandekar, Mihir Joshi, Deshabhushan Bastawade and Shauri Sulakhe. 2024. A Baffling Case of Morphological, Molecular and Ecological Discordance in Isometrus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) with the Description of Five New Species from southern India. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 308; 71-98. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2023.11.001 Isometrus antillanus Thorell, 1876 Isometrus armatus Pocock, 1891 Isometrus atherii Amir & Kamaluddin, 2008 Isometrus atomarius Simon, 1884 Isometrus bituberculatus Pocock, 1891 Isometrus chinensis Karsch, 1879 Isometrus devillei Becker, 1880 Isometrus feae Thorell, 1889 Isometrus formosus Pocock, 1894 Isometrus garyi Lourenço & Huber, 2002 Isometrus gracilis Thorell, 1876 Isometrus hainanensis Lourenço, Qi & Zhu, 2005 Isometrus infuscatus Pocock, 1891 Isometrus isadensis Tikader & Bastawade, 1983 Isometrus kovariki Sulakhe, Dandekar, Mukherjee, Pandey, Ketkar, Padhye & Bastawade, 2020 Isometrus lao Lourenço & Leguin, 2012 Isometrus liaqatii Amir & Kamaluddin, 2008 Isometrus lithophilis Deshpande, Gowande, Dandekar, Joshi, Bastawade & Sulakhe, 2024Shubhankar Deshpande, Gaurang Gowande, Nikhil Dandekar, Mihir Joshi, Deshabhushan Bastawade and Shauri Sulakhe. 2024. A Baffling Case of Morphological, Molecular and Ecological Discordance in Isometrus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) with the Description of Five New Species from southern India. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 308; 71-98. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2023.11.001 Isometrus maculatus (DeGeer, 1778) Isometrus mesor Simon, 1884 Isometrus palani Deshpande, Gowande, Dandekar, Joshi, Bastawade & Sulakhe, 2024Shubhankar Deshpande, Gaurang Gowande, Nikhil Dandekar, Mihir Joshi, Deshabhushan Bastawade and Shauri Sulakhe. 2024. A Baffling Case of Morphological, Molecular and Ecological Discordance in Isometrus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) with the Description of Five New Species from southern India. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 308; 71-98. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2023.11.001 Isometrus pallidimanus Karsch, 1879 Isometrus papuensis Werner, 1916 Isometrus phipsoni Oates, 1888 Isometrus sonticus Karsch, 1879 Isometrus tamhini Sulakhe, Dandekar, Padhye & Bastawade, 2020 Isometrus thenmala Deshpande, Gowande, Dandekar, Joshi, Bastawade & Sulakhe, 2024Shubhankar Deshpande, Gaurang Gowande, Nikhil Dandekar, Mihir Joshi, Deshabhushan Bastawade and Shauri Sulakhe. 2024. A Baffling Case of Morphological, Molecular and Ecological Discordance in Isometrus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) with the Description of Five New Species from southern India. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 308; 71-98. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2023.11.001 Isometrus thorellii Koch & Keyserling, 1885 Isometrus thurstoni Pocock, 1893 Isometrus thwaitesi Pocock, 1897 Isometrus weberi Karsch, 1882
Former species All species are assigned to Reddyanus.
Isometrus acanthurus Pocock, 1899 Isometrus assamensis Oates, 1888 Isometrus basilicus Karsch, 1879 Isometrus besucheti Vachon, 1982 Isometrus bilyi Kovařík, 2003 Isometrus brachycentrus Pocock, 1899 Isometrus corbeti Tikader & Batawade, 1983 Isometrus deharvengi Lourenço & Duhem, 2010 Isometrus heimi Vachon, 1976 Isometrus khammamensis Kovařík, 2003 Isometrus krasenskyi Kovařík, 1998 Isometrus kurkai Kovařík, 1997 Isometrus loebli Vachon, 1982 Isometrus melanodactylus (L. Koch, 1867) Isometrus navaiae Kovařík, 1998 Isometrus petrzelkai Kovařík, 2003 Isometrus problematicus Kovařík, 2003 Isometrus rigidulus Pocock, 1897 Isometrus tibetanus Lourenço & Zhu, 2008 Isometrus vittatus Pocock, 1900 Isometrus zideki Kovařík, 1994
References
Ehrenberg, 1828 : Arachnoidea, Scorpiones. in Hemprich & Ehrenberg, Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones animalium evertebratorum sepositis insectis quae ex itinere per Africanum borealem et Asiam occidentalem. Friderici Guielmi Hemprich et Christiani Godofredi Ehrenberg, studio novae aut illustratae redierunt. Percensuit editit Dr. C.G. Ehrehberg. Decas I. Berolini ex officina Academica, venditur a Mittlero, Berlin. Sulakhe, Shauri & Dandekar, Nikhil & Mukherjee, Shomen & Pandey, Malay & Ketkar, Makarand & Padhye, Anand & Bastawade, Deshabhushan. (2020). A new species of Isometrus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from southern India. 310. 1-13.