Belongs within: Buthoidea.
Tityus is a diverse Neotropical genus of medium-sized scorpions.
<==Tityus Koch 1836 [Tityinae]B-TN08
|--T. altithronus Armas 1999PGV03
|--T. argentinus Borelli 1899 [incl. T. bolivianus andinus Kraepelin 1911, T. bocki Kraepelin 1911]AO02
| |--T. a. argentinusAO02
| `--T. a. scaber (Werner 1939)AO02
|--T. birabeni Abalos 1955AO02
|--T. bolivianus Kraepelin 1895AO02
|--T. columbianus (Thorell 1876)AS-N08
|--T. confluens Borelli 1899AO02
|--T. crassimanusP92
|--T. demangei Lourenço 1981L95
|--T. ecuadorensisP00
|--T. eogenus Menge 1854S93
|--T. fasciolatus Pessoa 1935FM11
|--T. gasci Lourenço 1982AO02
|--T. geratus Santiago-Blay, Schawaller & Poinar 1988SF01
|--T. insignisP00
|--T. longimanusD57
|--T. metuendus Pocock 1897AO02
|--T. mucronatusD59
|--T. obscurusSF15
|--T. obtususP00
|--T. proseni Abalos 1954AO02
|--T. quisqeyanus Armas 1982PGV03
|--T. serrulatusSF15
|--T. simonsi Pocock 1900P00
|--T. soratensis Kraepelin 1911AO02
|--T. stigmurus (Thorell 1876)AS-N08
|--T. tayrona Lourenço 1991B-TN08
`--T. trivittatus Kraepelin 1898SS08
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[AO02] Acosta, L. E., & J. A. Ochoa. 2002. Lista de los escorpiones bolivianos (Chelicerata: Scorpiones), con notas sobre su distribución. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 61 (3–4): 15–23.
[AS-N08] Aguiar, A. P. N., P. L. Santana-Neto, J. R. B. Souza & C. M. R. de Albuquerque. 2008. Relationship between litter characteristics and female size in Tityus stigmurus (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Journal of Arachnology 36 (2): 464–467.
[B-TN08] Botero-Trujillo, R., & J. A. Noriega. 2008. First record of the scorpion genus Microtityus from Colombia, with the description of a new species (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Journal of Arachnology 36 (2): 259–266.
[D57] Doleschall, C. L. 1857. Bijdrage tot de kennis der Arachniden van den Indischen Archipel. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië, series 3, 3 (5–6): 399–434, pls 1–2.
[D59] Doleschall, C. L. 1859. Tweede Bijdrage tot de kennis der Arachniden van den Indischen Archipel. Verhandelingen der Natuurkundige Vereeniging in Nederlandsch Indie [Acta Societatis Scientiarum Indo-Neêrlandicae] 5 (5): 1–60, pls 1–18.
[FM11] Freire-Jr, G. de B., & P. C. Motta. 2011. Effects of experimental fire regimes on the abundance and diversity of cursorial arachnids of Brazilian savannah (cerrado biome). Journal of Arachnology 39 (2): 263–272.
[L95] Locket, N. A. 1995. A new ischnurid scorpion from the Northern Territory, Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 52: 191–198.
[PGV03] Péréz González, A., & E. Vasconcellos. 2003. A new species of Arucillus Šilhavý, 1971, from the Dominican Republic (Opiliones: Laniatores: Cosmetidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 7: 135–140.
[P00] Pocock, R. I. 1900. Some new or little-known Neotropical scorpions in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 7, 5: 469–478.
[P92] Poinar, G. O., Jr. 1992. Life in Amber. Stanford University Press: Stanford.
[SS08] Sarmento, S. M. N., A. M. de Souza, M. V. Meiado & C. M. R. de Albuquerque. 2008. Notes on the life history traits of Rhopalurus rochai (Scorpiones, Buthidae) under different feeding regimes. Journal of Arachnology 36 (2): 476–479.
[S93] Selden, P. A. 1993. Arthropoda (Aglaspidida, Pycnogonida and Chelicerata). In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 297–320. Chapman & Hall: London.
[SF15] Sharma, P. P., R. Fernández, L. A. Esposito, E. González-Santillán & L. Monod. 2015. Phylogenomic resolution of scorpions reveals multilevel discordance with morphological phylogenetic signal. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B—Biological Sciences 282: 20142953.
[SF01] Soleglad, M. E., & V. Fet. 2001. Evolution of scorpion orthobothriotaxy: a cladistic approach. Euscorpius 1: 1–38.