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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaChelicerataArachnidaScorpionesVaejovidaeVaejovis

Southern Unstriped Scorpion
Vaejovis carolinianus (Beauvois, 1805)

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Chelicerata
Class Arachnida
Order Scorpiones
Family Vaejovidae
Genus Vaejovis
Species Vaejovis carolinianus (Beauvois, 1805)

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Accidental

Distribution

Range

Known from one county in Alabama.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama

Counties

Alabama
Jackson

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G5 Secure

G1G2G3G4G5▲

National ranks

United States
NNR

Subnational ranks

Georgia
SNR Unranked
Kentucky
S4 Apparently Secure
Louisiana
S2 Imperiled
South Carolina
SNR Unranked
Virginia
S1 Critically Imperiled
North Carolina
S2 Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

  • Hobbs, III., H.H. 1994. Assessment of the ecological resources of the caves of Russell Cave National Monument, Jackson County, Alabama and of selected caves at the Lookout Mountain Unit of Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park, Dade County, Georgia and Hamilton County, Tennessee. 200 pp.
  • Peck, S.B. 1989. The cave fauna of Alabama. Part I. The terrestrial invertebrates (excluding insects). National Speleological Society Bulletin 51: 11–33.

How to cite this account

Vaejovis carolinianus (Beauvois, 1805). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-2121. https://cavebiology.org/species/vaejovis-carolinianus/ (accessed 6 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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