Taylor Swift scorpion carrying child
Dave1969

Taylor Swift scorpion carrying child

One of my dirty half-dozen tailless whip scorpions (Charinus pescotti) has some eggs under her abdomen.
@MrGhostMantis, the eggs are growing and, through a cheap 10× portable microscope, there seems to be something taking shape inside. They have advanced from this photo and are hanging further off, and lower down, the abdomen.
 
@MrGhostMantis, they are a very small amblypygi, about 10mm adult body length, and seem to do well communally. I have them in a 2 litre container with plenty of hiding places, yet, three to four are often close to each other. There appears to be little sexual dimorphism when comparing pedipalps (the pedipalp to second leg ratio rule does not apply) with this species, however, abdominal differences seem apparent. I suspect that I have four females.
 

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samsung SM-G935F
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20191023_180339.jpg
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Wed, 23 October 2019 6:03 PM
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