Need a positive ID for this species?

[Lars Butcher]

Calling the Scorp-experts,

I'm not as firmiliar with scorpions as I am with tarantulas so ID'ing this one was been a little more difficult than I thought. The guy I got it from tells me its from the US. By the looks of it, its not venomous guessing from the pinchers. My hunch is Smeringurus mesaensis? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
~Lars

 

[MichiganHerp]

i was wrong

ok now this looks more like a mafia/black claw or what ever you want to call it but the true name it looks to be to me from everything i read .....Anuroctonus Phaiodactylus...as i thought one other scorp on here was but i was wrong but this has all the characteristics of the black claw...but i could be wrong agian but its worth looking into

anthony

 

[pandinus]

a profile of the metasoma would greatly help, but for right now, i might guess vaejovis sp.

 

[Kugellager]

Its most likely Paruroctonus boreus or another closely related Paruroctonus spp.

John
];')

 

[pandinus]

i thought paruroctonus, but it's tail didn't seem quite thin enough.