Question: Most scorpions whose stings cause serious medical problems are members of the Buthidae family. This family includes scorpions from the genera leiurus, androctonus and buthus, tityus, centruroides, mesobuthus, and parabuthus. Each of these genera are indigenous to different geographic locations; North and Central America, Asia, North Africa, Near/Middle East and South America. Match the listed genera with the correct geographic location
Answer: Leiurus: Near and Middle East, androctonus and buthus: North Africa, tityus: South America, centruroides: North and Central America, mesobuthus: Asia (especially India), and parabuthus in South Africa. (Isbister GK and Bawaskar HS. Scorpion envenomation 2014 NEJM 371:457-463)
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