Buthoscorpio is a genus of scorpions in the family Buthidae.Lourenço, Wilson. FURTHER TAXONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS ON THE GENUS BUTHOSCORPIO WERNER, 1936 (SCORPIONES, BUTHIDAE), WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES FROM INDIA. ()
Taxonomy Buthoscorpio chinnarensis Aswathi, Sureshan & Lourenço, 2015 Buthoscorpio indicus Lourenço, 2012 Buthoscorpio jinnahii (Amir, Kamaluddin & Jabbar, 2005)Amir, Rafat, Syed Kamaluddin & Afshan Jabbar. 2005. Two new species of the genus Stenochirus Karsch (Arachnida: Scorpionida: Buthidae) from Pakistan with their relationship, chromatography and electrophoresis of venom. International Journal of Biology & Biotechnology 2: 531-540. Buthoscorpio politus (Pocock, 1899) Buthoscorpio rahmatii (Amir, Kamaluddin & Jabbar, 2005) Buthoscorpio rayalensis Javed, Rao, Mirza, Sanap & Tampal, 2010 Buthoscorpio sarasinorum (Karsch, 1891)
Distribution Species of this genus are found in India and Sri Lanka.Fet, Sissom, Lowe & Braunwalder, 2000 : Catalog of the Scorpions of the World (1758-1998). New York Entomological Society, .
Description The length of the scorpion ranges from 30 to 52 mm.
References
Werner, 1936: « Neue-Eingänge von Skorpionen im Zoologischen Museum in Hamburg. Teil II. » Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstage von Professor Dr. Embrik Strand, ,