ABSTRACT
Scorpions are eight-legged arthropods that live mainly in warm climates. There are 650 species worldwide. The poisonous species are: in North Africa, Androctonus australis; in Turkey and North Africa, A. crassicauda; in the Mediterranean, Buthus occitanus; in Trinidad and Venezuela, Tityus trinitatis; in Brazil and Argentina, T. serrulatus; in California, New Mexico, Arizona, Baja California, Centruroides sculpturatus; and in Mexico, C. suffusus and C. noxius.
