Scorpion Picture Thread

[ArNT1]

Ythier:
Could you please repost the pictures of the red Rhopalurus junceus scorplings? I would like to save them on my computer with your permission?

Thanks

 

[Ythier]

No problem. I put them in the previous post.
Cheers,
Eric

 

[Brian S]

Here are the ones I collected Saturday..


Here is one of the males that killed a cricket right after I took the last pic


One of the nice things about this species is that they can be sexed by looking at the metosoma (tail)
Males have longer/thinner tails with each segment being longer like this.....


The females have shorter and thicker tails like this...

 

[misfitsfiend]

those look alot like Centruroides but with longer tails.

 

[cacoseraph]

those look alot like Centruroides but with longer tails.

they should be Centruroides vittatus

 

[misfitsfiend]

they should be Centruroides vittatus

good, then im not crazy. I thought they were labled something else ...

 

[prang11]

They are Centruroides vittatus. Awsome scorps if you ask me. One of my females gave birth just 4 days ago. Cant wait till they grow up.

 

[Brian S]

Oh yeah...I forgot to mention the species. Age is not kind to me lol

 

[Nazgul]

Hi,

1.) Odonturus dentatus female
2.) the distinguishing feature of O. dentatus - the tibial spur
3.) Liocheles australasiae

Regards
Alex

 

[G. Carnell]

wow..
is that really the ONLY difference between O.dentatus and B.jacksoni?

i thought they would at least look slightly different..


have you tryed putting the two species together to see if they will mate?

 

[prang11]

Nazgul, the first picture is great. The detail is amazing. I need to get a camera with those capabilities.

 

[Nazgul]

Hi,

Andrew, thanks.

George, as far as I know it´s the only difference. My O. dentatus are a little bit more yellowish than my B. jacksoni but colour is no real feature. Also I´ve seen pics of O. dentatus which were of exactly the same colour as my jacksoni. Besides the fact that my dentatus are a little bit smaller, they fit the jacksoni more or less in morphology.

1.) Androctonus crassicauda male
2.) Apistobuthus pterygocercus male
3.) A. pterygocercus female with heavy fungal infection

Regards
Alex

 

[Brian S]

Beautiful!!! Those 2 species are on my "Holy Grail" List. You are very lucky to have them. Hopefully some will get shipped here someday.

 

[fusion121]

lovely pictures Alex, that tibial spur shot is great :worship: .

 

[Nazgul]

Hi,

according to my experience A. pterygocercus is hardly maintainable. I started two tries with groups of several specimens. The first one a few years and the second a few months ago. Both times the scorpions died one by one, always because of fungal infection. The specimens on the pics above are the remaining ones and the female will die soon. People I know made similar experiences. I don´t know the reason for the infection but I guess it was because of wrong conditions. I don´t know what I did wrong though. I tried different conditions without effect.

A friend of mine who has been to the Oman found that they seem to dig really deep burrows. Maybe they should be kept quite cool and moist (which I didn´t try). They are drinking regurlarly when offered water although their habitats are really dry, at least on the surface.

Regards
Alex

 

[Brian S]

Very interesting. You could be right on that though. It is odd that a desert species is that difficult to keep. I have been wanting A crassicuada for sometime even though they look so similar to my bicolors. I like all Androctonus spp AND Parabuthus spp for that matter. I guess I need to book a trip to N Africa or the Middle East

 

[Nazgul]

Hi,

Lychas mucronatus with newborns

Regards
Alex

 

[NewGriot]

Woow

Wooow..I`ll take all....

One of the sweetest scorp I`ve ever seen...

Good luck with raising up.

 

[Ythier]

Hi,
Lychas mucronatus with newborns
Regards
Alex

Where is the second part of the newborns ?

 

[smalltime]

HI ALex is that the first batch of that female? (would explain small litter... :? ) And is she Amsterdam-borne?