I have so preety offspring :D

[BooYaKa]

Hi. Remember my babycurus sp. ? She gave me a birth and last night scorps molted first time. Look at them and just say, aren't they beautiful?

Female is 11 cm long, juveniles have 1,5 cm

 

[Scolopendra55]

VERY cute

 

[The Bear]

Their so bright and beautiful!

 

[Prymal]

Andrew,

Congrats on the new "kids"! Very beautiful with some incredibly intense coloration. Wish they'd keep that intensity as adults. Good luck!

Luc

 

[Jmadson13]

Congratulations! I think you'll really enjoy the attractivness and ease of raising these little guys

 

[BooYaKa]

Thanks, friends but I still don't know what kind of species is this

 

[ThatGuy]

man that is a nice clutch of B. Jacksoni :clap: :clap: :clap:

 

[Prymal]

Andrew,

Looks like B. jacksoni!

Luc

 

[BooYaKa]

I have adult b.jacksoni. I have her from first instar. Now she is 7 instar and she has 6,5 cm! This female has 11 cm!!! It can not be jacksoni...

 

[G. Carnell]

Hi
if you check back to past pics by Booyaka you can see the pics of the adult without babies.. its a very very nice scorp, and quite different to B.jacksoni!

 

[Prymal]

Sorry BooYaKa,

I only saw the small photo posted above. In the past, I purchased 2 Babycurus spp. that turned out to be the dark (chocolate) morph of B. jacksoni. You'll probably need to acquire the genereic key:

Kovarik, F. 2000. Revision of Babycurus with descriptions of three new species (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 64: 235-265.

Do you know the country of origin?

Luc

 

[Prymal]

BooYaKa,

At 11 cm (110 mm), there's only one Babycurus species that attains such a large size - B. gigas from Eastern Africa (Tanzania). This is the largest member of the genus! The only other Babycurus species which comes close to B. gigas in size is B. jacksoni (90 mm). Also, if you can, examine and count the rows of granules of the moveable fingers of the chelae. If they equal 10 and your specimen is truly 110 mm then, it is B. gigas. If it is - you're one lucky $#@&%$!...

Luc

 

[Prymal]

BooYaKa,

I just dug out the Kovarik revision (whew - man, I need to get a system of organization going on for locating papers scattered all over my house! LOL) and in the revision, he states that the young of B. gigas have much of the patellae of the pedipalps brown to black (as in the young in the photo above) and that the young have 3 dark, longitudinal bands on the dorsal surface of the mesosoma (as the young in the photo above). If your fem has 10 rows of granules on the moveable fingers of the chelae, at 110 mm then, it looks like you have yourself a fem Babycurus gigas Kraepelin, 1896!

Luc

 

[G. Carnell]

nice work
nice species!

 

[Jmadson13]

wonderful animal nonetheless, sorry for the assumptions.

 

[franco]

wow!!! congrats :clap:

 

[BooYaKa]

Yes...yes...yes...my female has 10 rows of granules on the moveable fingers of the chelae. And 11 cm long. It is...it is...Babycurus gigas...

 

[prang11]

Congrats, amazing pic

 

[Jmadson13]

Fantastic news,that big girl is beautiful.

 

[SDY]

Hell yeah
I've got 3 of those small, preety ones B.gigas... I supose it's not quite popular scorp in homes Luck is luck, what can i say?