Santa Clara County, CA

Paruroctonus silvestrii (Borelli 1909)

* Santa Teresa County Park (Dave Gaban)

* Almaden valley area, echo valley road (Dave Gaban)

* Hicks road area (Dave Gaban)

Uroctonites montereus (Gertsch & Soleglad, 1972)

² Clayton Road, 10 June 1963.

⁴ Montebello Ridge, short grass on gravel, 25 Jun 1965 (D. Cavanaugh)

⁴ Alum Rock Park, 12 Sep 1977 (J. Hjelle, J. Ramsey)

Uroctonus mordax mordax Thorell, 1876

² Arroyo Mocho, Mt. Hamilton

² Alum Rock Park; Gilroy Hot Springs

² Scott’s Valley

² Loch Lomond Reservoir

² 10 mi. S of Holy City

² 5 mi. S of Redmond Estates, on Loma Prieta road, in Douglas fir area.

³ Gilroy Hot Springs, 13 February 1966 (R.W. Cahill)

³ Uvas Canyon County Park, 26 February 1966 (K. Hom)

³ Arroyo Mocho, Mt. Hamilton, 8 May 1968 (collector unknown)

³ Alum Rock Park, 8 May 1968 (R. Pisciotto)

³ Alum Rock Park, 30 January 1969 (J. Smith)

Uroctonus mordax pluridens Hjelle, 1972

³ Near Loma Prieta Weather Station, 10 November 1968 (J. Smith)

³ Summit above Los Gatos, 4 March 1969 (J. Smith)

³ Alum Rock Park, 8 March 1969 (J. Smith)

³ Uvas Meadows, near Sveadahl, 15 March 1969 (J. Smith)

³ Summit above Los Gatos, just off Summit Road, 20 March 1969 (J. Smith)

³ Mt. Charlie Road, 13 April 1969 (R. McGehee)

³ Loma Prieta, 9 November 1969 (J. Smith)

Uroctonus mordax (mordax x pluridens hybrids)

³ Alum Rock Park, 3 March 1970 (R.P. Swartzell)

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

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