San Mateo County, CA

 

 

   Serradigitus gertschi striatus (Hjelle, 1972)

3 San Carlos (burned chaparral hillside), 20 December 1970 (C. Rees)

   Uroctonites montereus (Gertsch & Soleglad, 1972)

2 0.8 mi. NW Crystal Springs Dam, 19 February 1966 (V. Lee), from under serpentine and chert rocks

2 ¾ mi. N Crystal Springs Dam, 23 January 1966 (K. Hom) from under rocks near spring

4 Crystal Springs Lake, under stones, 18 October 1920 (C. Duncan)

4 1.3 km (0.75 mi) N of Crystal Springs Dam on County Road 14, under rock near spring, 26 Feb 1966 (K. Hom)

4 Edgewood County Park, along Serpentine Trail, el. 210 m, 2 Jan 1987 (T. Briggs, V. Lee, D. Ubick)

4 Jasper Ridge (date and collector unknown)

   Uroctonus mordax mordax Thorell, 1876

            3 Redwood City, 12 August 1958 (D.W. Ozenbaugh)

 

 

 

 

 

References:

 

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

 

3) Hjelle, J. T. 1972. Scorpions of the Northern Californian coast ranges. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, 92: 1-59

 

4) Williams, S. C. & W. E. Savary. 1991. Uroctonites, a new genus of scorpion from Western North America (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 67(4): 272-287