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The venomous scorpions of the subfamily Tityinae from the family Buthidae (Simon, 1880) differ from the representatives of the other families by virtue of: a sternum longer than broad, narrow in front, nearly triangular, with anteriorly converging sides; movable finger of pedipalps with more than seven rows of granules obliquely positioned, largely overlapping each other.
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Bücherl, W., Diniz, C.R. (1978). Venoms of Tityinae. In: Bettini, S. (eds) Arthropod Venoms. Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology / Handbuch der experimentellen Pharmakologie, vol 48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45501-8_14
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