Giant shiny black thin clawed Fl Keys scorp?

[Dave]

I've heard reports of scorps in the Keys that are 5 inches long, shiny black, built like pandinus BUT with THIN claws. Does anyone know what this is? I can find zero info online. It's all word of mouth so far from a few different sources.

 

[Warren Bautista]

Centruroides gracilis

Florida Bark Scorpion

 

[AzJohn]

5" would be a huge Centruroides. I can't think of any other thin clawed scropion in the US however, plus they aren't shinny.

John

 

[Dave]

Centruroides gracilis

Florida Bark Scorpion

No. I guess I should have mentioned it's def NOT gracilis from the description. I have grac in my collection that I caught down here... this is something else. Thanks, though.

 

[GideonSmith08]

Could it be Diplocentrus? Does it live in Florida?

 

[John Apple]

doubtful...diplos are kinda small....On one of the Keys [can't tell that is where the albinos are from] we caught Gracilis that are well into the 5" mark...The fat females look like a pandinus but with skinny palps.
These are a lot bigger than the 'mainland' gracilis

 

[Dave]

doubtful...diplos are kinda small....On one of the Keys [can't tell that is where the albinos are from] we caught Gracilis that are well into the 5" mark...The fat females look like a pandinus but with skinny palps.
These are a lot bigger than the 'mainland' gracilis

That's very interesting to here.... let me ask you, I was told they are shiny jet black- are the females you've seen shiny like an emperor?

 

[John Apple]

yes they are...shiny viloet black...with somewhat lighter legs...another person [Dale Marantz] told us about these big emp like scorps and took us to the location where they are and we confirmed they were gracilis...but kinda bigguns

 

[Gracilis]

ahhhh if you could get some i would gladly buy them from you....:drool: :drool:

 

[John Apple]

I have many and all the females are gravid or sitting with babies on the backs.
This colony is where those 'albinos' came from....I will be shortly offering up scorplings from the other females. The 'het' and the 'albinos' are not yet for sale...on another thread is where there is a pic of what they look like

 

[Gracilis]

yea i saw some of those... how much each?

 

[Nomadinexile]

Diplocentrus whitei is the biggest scorpion in Texas. about 3 inches bam! take that! But they have bad, bad claws!

doubtful...diplos are kinda small....On one of the Keys [can't tell that is where the albinos are from] we caught Gracilis that are well into the 5" mark...The fat females look like a pandinus but with skinny palps.
These are a lot bigger than the 'mainland' gracilis

 

[John Apple]

Diplocentrus whitei is the biggest scorpion in Texas. about 3 inches bam! take that! But they have bad, bad claws!

hmmm the diplo's we caught were the smaller ones not whitei, I was told that they don't get too big and stay small....but ahhh well BAM or whatever
would definately be willing to trade for some whitei

 

[Dave]

yes they are...shiny viloet black...with somewhat lighter legs...another person [Dale Marantz] told us about these big emp like scorps and took us to the location where they are and we confirmed they were gracilis...but kinda bigguns

Ok. Good info. Thanks.

 

[pandinus]

most tropical centruroides grow to sizes which are conderably larger than their mesic and xeric counterparts, and a 5" male does not sound very far fetched at all to me for a gracilis



John

 

[Aztek]

most tropical centruroides grow to sizes which are conderably larger than their mesic and xeric counterparts, and a 5" male does not sound very far fetched at all to me for a gracilis



John

X2.......
Gracilis are one of the biggest centruroides in some localities.

 

[John Apple]

X2.......
Gracilis are one of the biggest centruroides in some localities.

they get pretty big where I caught them. One male is 5" long , the others are 3-4"