I'm more of a tarantula guy than a scorpion guy, so i'm not very good with names, but i saw one scorpion that got me interested, now here's the stupid description and i hope for a maybe impossible reply: yellow-ish with a very odd looking tail, very different from other scorps. thanks
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Where did you see this scorpion? Did the specimen have a disc-like second metasomal (tail) segment?
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could be a yellow fat tail, Androctonus australis? Need more details tho man, what was odd about the tail, and what makes it different from the usual species in the trade?
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Try typing in the location you saw the scorp and "scorpion" at google images and see if you can find what you saw. That's how a lot of people on the internet sound like geniuses with their replies haha.
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Could be a Centruroides sp., Androctonus sp., Parabuthus sp., Hadrurus sp., Opistophthalmus sp., Hottentotta sp., and more.
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The description sounds like Apistobuthus pterygocercus because of his use of generalizations: it seems that A. pterygocercus resembles the scorpion that he noticed because of the 'odd looking tail' as a distinguishing characteristic from 'other species'. It's quite vague...
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That species may be a possibility since he is in Europe. It is a pretty rare species though.
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Well, the way he described it, he was vague enough that he never said anything about a species in the hobby. It was just 'I saw one scorpion that got me interested'. It could have been a picture. OP, any more help? You really can't leave us guessing like this; if you want help, you have to give us some more information!
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i'll go with this one.
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Well caught Tu......you've got to wonder just how those scorp's get their 2nd segment through the 1st when shedding :?
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Good point. The wonders of nature...maybe the exuvia just breaks?
The scorpion is so soft that he can fits their "easily" through. Often the stinger is absolutely straight after a molt and sometimes even the pedipalp fingers are a bit twisted. After molting it takes some time until the stinger get it's typical curve and the pedipalps "untwist" again. I guess the segment of theses scorpions are also very soft and flexible.
Btw the same "proplem" a emperor does have with his pedipalps which are much bigger than the "arm" ;-)
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Good point....i'd still like to see that scorp moulting though...
No doubt that i would love to see that to because like a said its also interesting to see the stinger and pedipalps in "unusual" twisted way. But i doubt that i will ever have the luck to see on of these scorpions live so the chance that i can observe a molting is nearly at zero.Good point....i'd still like to see that scorp moulting though...