FYI, hebraeus has two color form, above is a light morph, the dark morph below has some stripes similar to 5-striatus, but the chela is still shorter than 5-striatus.
This question may seem stupid at first glance, but since Leiurus quinquestriatus doesn't have ssp. any more when Graeme Lowe et al. made a revision on the genus in 2014, and no subsequent LD50 test has been done, the most toxic scorpion is doubtful.
Because when the LD50 of 5-striatus were first...
Scorpio maurus, its former two well-known ssp, S. m. fuscus and S. m. palmatus were already elevated to sp. level. The most commonly known "Scorpio maurus" seems refer in particular to the palmatus, which is a yellow species from Middle East. Another yellow Scorpio namely Scorpio kruglovi also...
Less than 65mm.
The generic name, Anuroctonus, is from the Greek word an, meaning "not," and the name Uroctonus, a genus of scorpion from North America. Anuroctonus thus means "not Uroctonus." The specific name, phaiodactylus, is from the Greek words phaeo, meaning "dusky," and dactyl, meaning...
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