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Study on Distribution of Scorpions to Provide Prevention and Interventions in Combating Scorpionism in Poldokhtar County, Lorestan Province, Iran [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016 Introduction: Scorpions are arthropods of medical importance classified in the class Arachnida, inhabiting hot and dry environments. All scorpions have a venomous sting and several thousand people die each year from scorpion stings, but this ...
MANSOUR NAZARI, HASSAN RASTGAR
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Emotions triggered by live arthropods shed light on spider phobia
Scientific Reports, 2021 Spiders are mostly harmless, yet they often trigger high levels of both fear and disgust, and arachnophobia (the phobia of spiders) ranks among the most common specific animal phobias.
Daniel Frynta +8 more
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, 2011 6 pp.Originally published: 2001Scorpions have long been of interest to humans primarily because of their ability to give painful and sometimes life threatening stings.
Gouge, Dawn, Olson, Carl
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Scorpions and Their Human Mortality Report in Iran: A Review Article
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2019 Background: The scorpions have enjoyed medical importance from ancient times because of their morphological structure and venom. The identification of the species of these arthropods has been more emphasized than any other aspects.
Faranak FIROOZFAR +2 more
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Psammophilic scorpions in deserts of Iran [PDF]
, 2021 In this study totally 3453 scorpions belonged buthidae family collected from different localities in south and southwestern provinces of Iran. The six psammophilic scorpions were identified in this research: Kraepelinia palpator, Polisius persicus ...
SH Navidpour, Navidpour SH
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, 2008 Scorpions are eight-legged carnivorous arthropods and belong to the class Arachnida. This class also includes ticks, spiders, and mites. There are approximately 1,300 species of scorpions worldwide and 75 species in the United States, but only 9 are ...
Hodgson, Erin W., Roe, Alan H.
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InsectsEcdysis is a well-known developmental feature among arthropods. Because the aggregate and synchronous molting of first-instar scorpions is markedly different from the common independent molting behavior of older scorpions and most arthropods, knowledge ...
Yiyuan Guo +5 more
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Scorpions and life-history strategies: from evolutionary dynamics toward the scorpionism problem
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2018 This work aims to contribute to the general information on scorpion reproductive patterns in general including species that can be noxious to humans. Scorpions are unusual among terrestrial arthropods in several of their life-history traits since in many
Wilson R. Lourenço
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ZooKeys, 2018 Morphologically conserved taxa such as scorpions represent a challenge to delimit. We recently discovered populations of scorpions in the genus Kovarikia Soleglad, Fet & Graham, 2014 on two isolated mountain ranges in southern California.
Robert W. Bryson Jr. +4 more
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