Scorpion Picture Thread

[Christoph]

More pics...

1-2.Tityus falconensis
3. Androctonus mauritanicus
4-5. Hottentotta jayakari jayakari

 

[G. Carnell]

Nice scorps Christoph!

specially the little jaya

 

[G. Carnell]

I tryed Erics experiment with two males after having seen a female, success!

and a colourful Centroruides margaritatus ( Bicolor) from Oliver

 

[mimic58]

More pics

Sorry I would have uploaded to this thread if id seen it. here is a link to my most recent photos, enjoy.

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?p=460756#post460756

 

[Brian S]

Beautiful scorps George!!!!

 

[NewGriot]

C.Margaritatus

C.Margaritatus with babies

 

[Ythier]

I tryed Erics experiment with two males after having seen a female, success!

... lol

 

[Ythier]

Mesobuthus gibbosus scorplings

 

[Zellhaufen]

Hi Eric,

I have some alleged 3rd to 4th Buthus ibericus that looks very very similar to your posted picture of Mesobuthus gibbosus. Do Mesobuthus gibbosus and Buthus ibericus scorplings resemble so much or do you think that I have also a Mesobuthus one? Here I got a picture.

Zellhaufen

Here another better picture of the 4th instar Buthus

 

[prang11]

Eric, you are always amazing me. Im so jealous.

 

[Nazgul]

Hi Zellhaufen,

I assume you got them from Manuel G. from Harsewinkel? If so, it´s definitely B. ibericus. I was the one who IDed them by the parents. They have been collected in Spain near the boarder of Portugal. No M. gibbous is listed for Spain, by the way. Also species are not really determinable in the first instars. And yes, scorplings of a lot of Mesobuthus and Buthus spp are looking very alike during the first instars.

Regards
Alex

 

[Nazgul]

Hi,

some yet unidentified Bothriuridae from Chile.

Regards
Alex

 

[fusion121]

Very nice Alex, number 3 looks like it could be gravid

 

[Nikos]

Very nice speciments Alex!!!
the first one looks like its transparent!!!!

 

[G. Carnell]

very nice..
are they fiesty like Euscorpius?
they remind me alot of them.. for some reason..

 

[fusion121]

Not a very good picture, but my L.q. mating:

 

[Michael]

Hi Alex

Very beautiful species you have there

 

[Nazgul]

Hi,

thanks. It´ll become quite difficult to ID them down to species level, I guess. I was already able to determine the species on the second pic as a Bothriurus sp. by using the key in the Polis. But I haven´t found a species key yet. Any ideas are much appreciated. I found some citations for papers on Suoth-American Bothriuridae but most of them are in Spanish (of which I don´t know a word).

Regards
Alex

 

[fusion121]

Hi Alex
You could check out some of E. A. Maury's papers he did allot of work on South American Bothriuridae, I have his paper on Timogenes which is excellent and has a good key, his work is generally in Spanish, though its quite easy to get an idea of what’s being described.

 

[G. Carnell]

Not a very good picture, but my L.q. mating:

hmm
those scorps still scare the -cripes- out of me, isnt it hard to manvouver them? seeing theyre so big and lanky and vicious?
also: whats that black thing in the botton right hand corner?