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where the species has not been taken. The range swings northwestward 

 from Sevier, and presumably Cocke, counties into the Cumberland Plateau 

 and does not extend farther north in the Blue Ridge and Ridge and 

 Valley Provinces. 



Vaejovis carolinianus typically occurs in association with decaying 

 pine logs, particularly beneath loose bark; it can be plentiful under 

 loose rocks on talus slopes and has been encountered in mesic deciduous 

 forests (Shelley 1975/?, 1994). In central Tennessee, specimens have 

 been taken at night with ultraviolet light from moss-covered vertical 

 surfaces of old highway roadcuts in limestone, suggesting that the scorpions 

 inhabit the cracks and crevices on these walls and forage either in the 

 cracks or on the surface itself (W. D.Sissom, West Texas A&M University, 

 personal communication). Rossman (1979) encountered specimens in 

 clay soil on a stream bank, and beneath decaying logs, leaf litter, slabs 

 of wood, and the bark of a dead hardwood tree. Gibbons et al. (1990) 

 stated that V. carolinianus was restricted to moist woodland habitats, 

 where it occurs beneath leaves, logs, and other litter. The scorpion 

 occasionally wanders into buildings and has been collected in homes in 

 Davidson County, Tennessee; Madison, Polk, and Transylvania counties, 

 North Carolina; Laurens, Spartanburg, Lexington, and Oconee counties, 

 South Carolina; and Tishomingo and Clarke counties, Mississippi. It 

 was also taken in a dormitory room at Mississippi State University, 

 Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. 



The following locality records are supported by preserved 

 specimens and are presented in alphabetical order; those from North 

 Carolina are provided by Shelley (1994). Citations include the date of 

 collection, the name(s) of the collector(s), and the repository, indicated 

 by the following acronyms: 



AMNH - American Museum of Natural History, New York, 

 New York. 



ANSP - Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 



CAS - California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 



CC - Biology Department, Columbus College, Columbus, Georgia. 



CU - Entomology Department, Clemson University, Clemson 

 South Carolina. 



FMNH - Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois. 



FSCA - Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville. 



ILNHS - Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign. 



MCZ - Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



MEM - Mississippi Entomological Museum, Mississippi State University, 

 Starkville. 



