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Family Buthidae 

 Centruroides vittatus (Say) 

 Habitat — In its native range, C. vittatus occurs in a wide variety 

 of microhabitats in deserts, deciduous and pine forests, and grasslands. 

 It lives in cracks and crevices of rocky outcrops and canyons walls, 

 climbs into vegetation, occurs beneath yuccas in deserts and grasslands, 

 and commonly enters houses (W. D. Sissom, West Texas A&M University, 

 personal communication). The specimens from Nash and Dare counties, 

 the Research Triangle Park, and Bland Road, Raleigh, were discovered 

 inside buildings; those at the last two sites were walking across a room 

 and a hallway. The specimen from Wakefield Street, Raleigh, was found 

 by workers digging behind a building. 



Fig. 6. Occurrences of scorpions in North Carolina. Dots, V. carolinianus; 

 stars, C. hentzi; asterisks, C. vittatus. The site record from near Cowans 

 Ford Dam, Mecklenburg County, is indicated by the eastern circle; that 

 from Transylvania County is obscured by a dot. The western circle, in 

 Jackson County, denotes Balsam Gap, the location from which the wood 

 containing V. carolinianus in Haywood County was obtained. Dashed 

 lines surround presumably indigenous records in western counties show- 

 ing the assumed expansions from adjoining states. 



