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Various terrestrial animals  Distribution details

Beetles

Beetles that can cause skin lesions are found worldwide
 

Caterpillars and moths

Species with urticating hairs are distributed throughout the world from tropical to temperate zones.

Systemic envenoming, including fatal cases known from Lonomia sp. in Brazil, South America. Similarly severe cases of envenoming have been reported in Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru

 

Centipedes

Worldwide, from tropical to temperate zones. Main area of distribution of the potentially dangerous Scolopendridae in tropical zones.

Tick paralysis

Tick paralysis has been decribed in:

North America: USA and Canada
Central America: Mexico
Europe: England, Spain, France, Greece
Africa: Algeria, Somalia, South Africa
Middle East: Israel
Far East: Russia
Australia

Beaded lizards

Southwestern USA (far southwest Utah, far southern Nevada and southeast California, Arizona, far southwest New Mexico). Western and southern Mexico, Guatemala