Help! Identification

[Kaos]

Hi!
Can anyone please try to help me with this? I'll post som more pics as reply to this. Sorry about the quality, bad camera, and some of the scorps are very small. This first i'm pretty sure is B. Jacksoni just need a confirmation. It's about 3 inches, and matches every thing i've read about them.

Best regards
Kim A. Svingen

 

[Kaos]

B. Jacksoni

Here's the picture

 

[Kaos]

Another one

Anyone have a clue to what this. It is under 1 inch long, and it is adult, i know that because 1 of these gave birth during shipping. They are black with yellow spots all over. The legs and pedipalps are striped. I'm sure it is a buthid. The only thing on scorpionfiles i found that looked anything like it was lychas spp. but none matched. By the way all were collected in Tanzania.

 

[Kaos]

Another one

And then it is this one, i have no clue. It has dark spots on the tail and dark stripes on the legs. It is a little under 2 inches.

 

[Kaos]

Another picture of the previous one.

 

[skinheaddave]

Kaos,

Unfortunately, my skills are not such that I can make the ID based on a vague description and a blurry photo. The first one may be B.jacksonii or it might be another Babycurus or it might be another Buthid alltogether. Lychas might be a good guess for the second given the size and general description. Microtityus would be another, except that the collection locale is wrong. For the third, I would guess Vaejovis based on the dorsal patterning and tail proportions -- as far as I can tell. Once again, though, the collection locale is wrong and the picture is next to useless.

Cheers,
Dave

 

[Kaos]

a little bit better pic of what i suspect to be Lychas

 

[Kaos]

What about this one? Hottentotta Polysticus?

 

[Kaos]

Another one

 

[Kaos]

And this one: Odonturus Dentatus? It's subacular spine is not same colour as the telson, as i understood it should be if it was a Babycyrus Species. They are really aggressive and take on crickets their own size, wit no problems

 

[Kaos]

I have a couple of better pics of number 3 to. It has a subacular spine which is not the same colour as the telson.

 

[Kaos]

pic #2

 

[Kugellager]

Ok the two pics just before my post are most likely Centruroides elegans or C.noxius...I'm nearly 100% sure of this ;')

THe one you suspect may be a Hottentotta sp. may in fact be of that species...I'll refer that to Dave though.

The one with the light colored pedipalps and dark body could be Lychas sp. but the pic is still too blurry to show enough detail.

John
];')

 

[Kaos]

Id

Thank you John!

Do these two Centruroides species excist in Tanzania? As i'm 100% sure thats where they are collected.

 

[Kugellager]

The Centruroides genus only exist in North America, Central America, South America and in the Caribbean...The Centruroides sp. you have would have come from western Mexico...which is rather interesting.

By the way, assuming it is either of the two Centruroides species I mentioned, they are both quite hot and therefore extreme care should be taken when cleaning or moving the scorpion as the venom is potentially life threatening if you are stung.

John
];')

 

[Kaos]

I Have some of the id's worked out now after mailing with Jan Ove Rein. The one i thought to be Lychas is Lychas Bordoi. The Babycyrus is B. Jacksoni. The one i thought to be O. Dentatus is that. The assumed Hottentotta is H. Polystictus. The one which John belives to be Centruroides is very unsure, but Jan Ove mentioned Uroplectes as a possibility. Anyone have any links to info on this Genus? I'm also gonna check with with my contact in Tanzania to ask him where he got it and if he know if it is common there. There might be a possibilty that some Centruroides have come with a boat or something...

 

[Kugellager]

There are quite a few images of Uroplectes on Jan's site here but I was unable to match it with any of them.

http://www.ub.ntnu.no/scorpion-files/gallery.php

Though if anyone can ID your scorps it would be him.

John
];')