''Ananteris balzanii'' is a scorpion species found in

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...

and

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. It is the

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...

of the ''

Ananteris ''Ananteris'' is a little-known genus of rare scorpions. It contains 84 species found in South America. Species include: *'' Ananteris balzanii'' Thorell, 1891 *'' Ananteris dacostai'' Ythier, Chevalier & Lourenço, 2020 *'' Ananteris pydanieli'' ...

'' genus.

References

Buthidae Animals described in 1891 Scorpions of South America Fauna of Argentina Fauna of Brazil Fauna of Paraguay Taxa named by Tamerlan Thorell {{Scorpion-stub