Scorpion Picture Thread

[Redellimom]

More pictures of Scorpinox! These were taken the day I found her, about 3 1/2 weeks ago.

 

[Redellimom]

These are pictures of a Striped bark scorpion and her scorplings that were found outside our home. Notice she is missing some parts of her legs and one of her claws. Not sure what happened to her. We took these pictures and let her and her young go on their way.

 

[Smokehound714]

Poor old girl.. she's a trooper, that's for sure! Dontcha just love centruroides babies? haha

Here's an unknown species of vaejovis found in the Picacho recreation area, in imperial county, CA, close to arizona.

initially, i presumed it to be yet another vaejovis waeringi, however the tail is a tad too massive, and there are prominent spines on the dorsal side of the metasoma (tail), just like Hoffmanius/vaejovis/paravaejovis spinigerus. Very skittish and defensive, stings on the drop of a dime..

 

[Smokehound714]

Juvenile Hadrurus obscurus

Note how the intraocular crescent is a 'box', rather than the smooth graded round crescent of arizonensis. I would've collected this rare scorpion if it werent so young..

 

[G. Carnell]

awesome pics!

Are the P. reddelli small like P. iviei? Had a few of those back in the day.. the babies must be a nightmare to keep! SO SMALL!

 

[Smokehound714]

awesome pics!

Are the P. reddelli small like P. iviei? Had a few of those back in the day.. the babies must be a nightmare to keep! SO SMALL!

reddelli is quite a large species, the second-largest pseudouroctonus species, if I can recall correctly. Some can reach 60+ mm, especially cave-dwelling populations.

 

[G. Carnell]

ahh! sounds like a nice species then, the one I had (P.iviei) was about 20mm long adult! (I think!) was tiny


Good news from my scorps, finally my lone H. alticola female has mated, after spending a whole week upside down on the mesh of the container lid -_-

thenagain... I didn't see her get down from there when the spermatophore appeared, so maybe she didn't take it up!
Can see spermatophore bottom right of pic!

 

[Redellimom]

Yes, the cave dwellers definitely get bigger. The ones around here (surface population, though we do have karsts and caves around) I think average 40-50mm. They are still much smaller than C. vittatus around here.
Here's Scorpinox on a ruler for perspective:
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[Beteigeuze]

Tityus stigmurus





greetings

 

[Tcollector]

B. jacksoni and A. australis.

 

[Tcollector]

L. quinquestriatus

 

[Smokehound714]

Hadrurus obscurus pallid-morph

 

[bananacustard]

Purchased a pair of Babycurus Gigas from Bruce at Arachnophiliacs. Made them a divided tank setup. Will post closeups soon with my Nikon.

Sent from my LG-D950G

 

[Spinster]

Babycurus gigas

Here's my B. gigas. I just picked him up last night, also from Bruce.

 

[Smokehound714]

Kochius hirsuticauda, a rare species endemic to the great basin, can be found in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and California.

 

[G. Carnell]

nice find!

Looks like it has a crazy amount of hairs on the telson!

 

[Smokehound714]

That it does! Mature specimens look like they have a toupee on their telson

 

[Redellimom]

P. redelli 4i or 5i juvenile

P. redelli 2i babies:

My son's H. paucidens "shrug"

 

[Redellimom]

Another one of Shrug

And Vlad, the P. cavimanus

And Deliah, the C. vittatus

 

[Smokehound714]

Paruroctonus silvestrii despite the name 'California common scorpion', they're only sometimes locally abundant, not nearly as common as anuroctonus. Often found in the same habitat as uroctonus mordax in southern california's coastal woodlands.

This is one species that should not be handled. The only reason it's on my wrist is because it darted out of the container and fell on me. One of the most nervous and sting-prone scorpions I can think of, these will often run and flail their telson as a defensive maneuver, and the venom DOES hurt!