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Scorpions of the Malay Peninsula and Siam were first systematically documented in a 1901 faunal survey by Captain Stanley S. Flower, 5th Fusiliers, who drew on four years of fieldwork (1895–1898) across the Straits Settlements, the Native States, and Siam to produce a practical taxonomic account for European residents encountering these animals in daily life . Flower's work, published in the Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, identified eight species of true scorpion (Order Scorpiones) from the region, recording their distribution, morphology, colour, size, and behaviour across at least fifteen localities .