Liocheles australasiae

　This species is widely distributed in Asia, Polynesia, Micronesia and Oceania. For more information, Reunion, Myanmar, India (including Andaman and Nicobar Islands), Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, China (including Taiwan), Korea (extinct?), Japan, Thailand (♂ found), Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, Indonesia, Australia (including Cocos, Christmas Islands),(♂ found), Papua New Guinea (including Bismarck Islands)(♂ found), Solomon Islands (including Vanikoro Island and Santa Cruz Island), Vanuatu(New Hebrides), Tuvalu(Funafuti Island), Micronesia(Caroline Islands, Yap), Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Polynesia (Tahiti), Ponape, New Britain, New Caledonia (including Loyalty Islands), Nepal?, Timor, Palau.*¹ 

〇*¹ Fet, V., W. D. Sissom, G. Lowe & M. E. Brauwalder. 2000. Catalog of the Scorpions of the World (1758-1998). The New York Entomological Society, New York.

〇* IWAKAWA, T. 1906. [Scorpiones from Japan.] Zoological Magazine, 18(207): 5-12 (in Japanese). 

KARASAWA, S. & K. KAWAZOE. 2005. [Distribution of Liocheles australasiae (Fabricius) (Scorpionida: Scorpionidae) in the Ryukyu Islands]. Edaphologia, 78: 15-17 (in Japanese). 

KAWAI, K. 2020a. [Distribution area of dwarf wood scorpion Liocheles australasiae (Fabricius, 1775) in Japan ― First records from Irabujima Island, Shimojishima Island (Miyakojima City) and Yonagunijima Island]. Fauna Ryukyuana, 54: 7-9 (in Japanese). 

KAWAI, K. 2020b. Records of Liocheles australasiae (Fabricius, 1775) (Hormuridae) and Isometrus maculatus (De Geer, 1778) (Arachnida: Scorpiones) from Haterumajima Island. Fauna Ryukyuana, 56: 9-11 (in Japanese). 

KOCH, L. E. 1977. The taxonomy, geographic distribution and evolutionary radiation of Australo-Papuan scorpions. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 5 (2): 83-367. 

KOVAŘÍK, F. 2003. A review of the genus Isometrus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) with descriptions of four new species from Asia and Australia. Euscorpius, 10: 1-19. 

KUBO, K. 2001. [Visiting Ioto Island.] Yadoriga, 2001: 67 (in Japanese).

 LOURENÇO, W. R. & J. L. CLOUDSLEY-THOMPSON. 2012. Introduction and adaptation of Isometrus maculatus (De Geer, 1778) (Scorpiones, Buthidae) in arid and desert formations. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society, 125: 8-9. 

MONOD, L. & L. PRENDINI. 2014. Evidence for Eurogondwana: the roles of dispersal, extinction and vicariance in the evolution and biogeography of IndoPacific Hormuridae (Scorpiones: Scorpionoidea), Cladistics, 31 (2015): 71-111. 

MONOD, L. & E. S. VOLSCHENK. 2004. Liocheles litodactylus (Scorpiones: Liochelidae): an unusual new Liocheles species from the Australian wet tropics (Queensland). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 49 (2): 675-690.

 MURAMATSU, M. 2007. News of Habiru, January 2007, 3 (in Japanese).

 SHIMOJANA, M. 1972. [Distribution of Arachnida in the Ryukyu Islands.] Genetics, 26: 100-106 (in Japanese). 

SHIMOJANA, M. 2015. [Arachnida - Scorpionida.] Pp. 135−138 In: An Illustrated Search for the Classification of Japanese Soil Animals (ed. J. Aoki). Tokai University Publication Society. (in Japanese). 

 TAKASHIMA, H. 1942. [Scorpiones and Pedipalpi from East Asia. (Version 5).] Acta Arachnologica, 7: 24-30 (in Japanese). 

TAKASHIMA, H. 1943. [Scorpiones and Pedipalpi from Japan.] Acta Arachnologica, 8: 13 (in Japanese). 

TAKASHIMA, H. 1945. [Scorpiones from East Asia.] Acta Arachnologica, 9: 85 (in Japanese). 

TAKASHIMA, H. 1948. [Pedipalpi from South Japan.] Acta Arachnologica, 10: 111 (in Japanese). 

TAKASHIMA, H. 1949. [Japanese scorpion inventory.] Acta Arachnologica, 11: 34 (in Japanese). 

CHIGIRA, Y. & S. TANAKA. 2004. [Arachnid, Chilopoda and Diplopoda in Kohamajima Island.] Museum Group, Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum (ed.) Report on the Survey of Kohamajima Island. Pp. 13-19, Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, Okinawa (in Japanese).