Editing Emperor scorpion (section)

==Habitat and distribution==
The emperor scorpion is an African rainforest species,<ref>{{cite book |author1=Rod Preston-Mafham |author2=Ken Preston-Mafham |year=1993 |title=The Encyclopedia of Land Invertebrate Behaviour |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofla0000pres |url-access=registration |publisher=[[MIT Press]] |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |isbn=978-0-262-16137-4}}</ref> but also present in [[savanna]]. It is found in a number of African countries, including [[Benin]], [[Burkina Faso]], [[Côte d’Ivoire]], [[Gambia]], [[Ghana]], [[Guinea]], [[Guinea-Bissau]], [[Togo]], [[Liberia]], [[Mali]], [[Nigeria]], [[Senegal]], [[Sierra Leone]] and [[Cameroon]].<ref name="ARKive"/>

This species inhabits both [[tropical forest]] and open savannas. The emperor scorpion burrows beneath the soil and hides beneath rocks and debris,<ref name="AIC"/> and also often burrows in [[termite mound]]s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Scorpion Systematics Research Group |publisher=[[American Museum of Natural History]] |date=November 2008 |url=http://scorpion.amnh.org/index.html |access-date=October 20, 2011}}</ref>