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Rowland M. Shelley 



Figs. 2-3. Comparison of telsons, setation omitted. 2, 

 V. carolinianus. 



vittatus: 



Key to the Scorpions in North Carolina 



Telson with variable subaculear tubercle (Fig. 2); pigmentation 

 yellow to yellow brown with obvious, dorsal, longitudinal 

 stripes 



Telson without subaculear tubercle (Fig. 3); pigmentation 

 generally dusky brown, without stripes; southeastern states 

 from Kentucky and southwestern North Carolina to south- 

 eastern Louisiana 



Vaejovis carolinianus (Beauvois) 



Cephalothorax light, mottled brown, without black, inter- 

 ocular triangle, chelicerae with reticulated brown pigmen- 

 tation (Fig. 4); small species, adults ca. 32-44 mm in length 



including metasoma and telson; Florida 



Centruroides hentzi (Banks) 



Cephalothorax darkly pigmented, with well defined, black 

 triangle pointing caudad and extending just beyond ocular 

 tubercle, chelicerae unpigmented (Fig. 5); large species, 

 adults ca. 40-60 mm in length; southcentral to south- 

 western United States and northern Mexico 



Centruroides vittatus (Say) 



