San Diego County, CA

 

 

   Anuroctonus phaiodactylus (Wood, 1863)

         *Iron Mountain, Poway, 2004 (Kevin Cash), by blacklighting road cuts.  They were sitting half in their burrows and would quickly depart back down when approached.

   Hadrurus arizonensis arizonensis Ewing, 1928

11 Borrego, 11 April 1952 (J.W. MacSwain)

   Hadrurus arizonensis pallidus Williams, 1970

11 Borego Valley, Borrego Store, 2 Sept. 1965 (S.C. Williams)

   Paruroctonus borregoensis borregoensis Williams, 1972

8 Borrego Valley, N. end Digiorgio Rd., 4 May 1968 (M.A. Cazier, R. Smoot)

8 Borrego State Park, 19 April 1969 (R.R. Pinger, M. Wasbauer)

8 Borrego Valley, Borrego Springs dump, 5 May 1968 (M. Cazier, R. Smoot)

8 Borrego Valley, 2 mi. W Pegleg Mon., 4 May 1968 (M.A. Cazier, R. Smoot)

8 E Borrego Springs along Pegleg Rd., 21 Apr. 1973 (R.M. Haradon, J.L. Marks)

8 E Borrego Springs along Salton Seaway at jct. Font’s Point Wash, 21 April 1973 (R.M. Haradon, J.L. Marks)

8 E Borrego Springs between dump and Pegleg Smith Mon., 31 Oct. 1980 (S.C. Williams)

8 6 mi. E Borrego Springs, 7 Oct. 1967 (M.A. Cazier et al.)

8 6 mi. NE Borrego Springs, 7 Oct. 1967 (M.A. Cazier et al.)

8 13 mi. NE Borrego Springs, 7 Oct. 1967 (M.A. Cazier et al.)

   Paruroctonus luteolus (Gertsch & Soleglad, 1966)

8 3 mi. NW Borrego Springs, 7 Oct. 1967 (M.A. Cazier et al.)

8 7.2 mi. S Borrego Springs on State Rt. 78, 22 Dec. 1965 (K. Hom)

8 Ocotillo Wells, 7 October 1967 (M.A. Cazier et al.)

   Pseudouroctonus andreas (Gertsch & Soleglad, 1972)

2 Mission Gorge, 1 mi. W Padre Dam, 100 ft., 7 July 1969 (S.C. Williams, V.F. Lee)

   Pseudouroctonus bogerti (Gertsch & Soleglad, 1972)

         2 Mt. Palomar, 3500 ft., June 30, 1956 (W.J. Gertsch, V. Roth)

   Pseudouroctonus minimus castaneus (Gertsch & Soleglad, 1972)

2 Santee, 28 January 1965 (Marion Keaher), from house

2 Vista, April 1965 (Mrs. Philip Sampson).

   Pseudouroctonus williamsi Sissom & Francke, 1981

2 Mission Gorge, 1 mile W Padre Dam, 100 feet, 7 July 1969 (S.C. Williams, V.F. Lee)

2 Mission Gorge, March 31, 1940 (Earl Brown)

2 Wild Cat Canyon, August 9, 1962 (S. C. Williams) from pit fall trap in burned area.

* Mission Gorge, Summer 2001, under large flat rock along main trail (Matthew R. Graham)

   Serradigitus gertschi gertschi (Williams, 1970)

* San Diego, near downtown in a grass field under rocks, 2001 (Matthew R. Graham, Joshua I. Ingoldt)

   Serradigitus joshuaensis (Soleglad, 1972)

18 Eight miles south of Borrego Springs, Yaqui Pass Road, 23 March and 30, 1968 (C.S. and M.E. Soleglad), 23 Oct. 1970 (C.S. and M.E. Soleglad, J. and J.L. Springer)

18 One mile west of Seventeen Palms Oasis of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, 24 Oct. 1970 (C.S. and M.E. Soleglad, J. and J.L. Springer)

18 five miles northwest of Ocotillo, off California S2, 1 Oct. 1971 (L.R. Erickson, M.E. Soleglad)

   Smeringurus aridus (Soleglad, 1972)

10 Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, 1 mi. W Seventeen Palms Oasis, 24 October 1970 (M.E. Soleglad et al.), 12 June 1971 (M.E. Soleglad, L.R. Erickson), 10 August 1974 (R.M. Haradon, W.E. Savary)

   Smeringurus mesaensis (Stahnke, 1957)

* Borrego Springs, Summer 2002 (Matthew R. Graham), on sand dunes

   Uroctonus mordax mordax Thorell, 1876

         2 Lakeside (Banks, 1900), a dubious record, not mapped.

   Vaejovis puritanus Gertsch, 1958

*Valley Center, Summer 2001 (Matthew R. Graham), under rock

12 Jacumba, 10 Aug. 1955 (W.J. Gertsch)

 

 

References:

 

* Collected and identified by a credible source but not published

 

2) Gertsch, W. J. & M. E. Soleglad. 1972. Studies of North American scorpions of the genera Uroctonus and Vejovis. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 148(4): 549-608

 

8) Haradon, R. M. 1984. New and redefined species belonging to the Paruroctonus borregoensis group (Scorpiones, Vaejovidae). Journal of Arachnology, 12: 317-339.

 

10) Haradon, R. M. 1983. Smeringurus, a new subgenus of Paruroctonus Werner (Scorpiones, Vaejovidae). Journal of Arachnology, 11(2): 251-270

 

11) Williams, S. C. 1970. A systematic revision of the giant hairy scorpion genus Hadrurus. Occasional Papers fo the California Academy of Sciences, 87: 1-62.

 

12) Williams, S. C. 1980. Scorpions of Baja California, Mexico and adjacent islands. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, 135: 1-127.

 

18) Soleglad, M. E. 1972. Two new scorpions fo the wupatkiensis group of the genus Vejovis. Wasmann Journal of Biology, 30(1-2): 179-195