Scorpion Picture Thread

[fusion121]

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?

Ever since I got stung by one of the babies they scare me too , they do not like being picked up with forceps at all and go absolutely crazy its difficult to hold onto them without hurting them. I only ever work with them in a large plastic box so even if they slip out of the forceps they can't get loose.

The black thing is a dead cricket I think

 

[Zellhaufen]

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

Hi Alex,

No I bought them last year as Buthus occitanus occitanus. After I learned about the revision of the Buthus ssp. I assumed that they were Buthus ibericus, because of their more reddish color.

Greetings

Zellhaufen

 

[Nazgul]

Hi,

colouration is no reliable character in identifying Buthids. You should check if both males and females are having a lobe on the base of the fixed finger (or maybe the moveable, I don´t remember). Furtheron you have to check the granulation on metasoma segment II and III. You should check the revision by Lourenco, the citation is given in a thread somewhere, I guess it was by Eric. I can´t give you the citation right now, I´m at work currently.

Regards
Alex

 

[Zellhaufen]

Hi,

You should check the revision by Lourenco, the citation is given in a thread somewhere, I guess it was by Eric. I can´t give you the citation right now, I´m at work currently.

Regards
Alex

Hi Alex,

is this the document you were talking about? http://www.sea-entomologia.org/aracnet/12/02Escorpion.pdf
Unfourtunately my french is a bit lousy, but I try to handle it.

Greetings

Zellhaufen

 

[prang11]

Hi,

some yet unidentified Bothriuridae from Chile.

Regards
Alex

Second picture is breath taking. Such a beautiful scorp.

 

[Nazgul]

Hi Alex,

is this the document you were talking about? http://www.sea-entomologia.org/aracnet/12/02Escorpion.pdf
Unfourtunately my french is a bit lousy, but I try to handle it.

Greetings

Zellhaufen

Hi Zellhaufen,

that´s it. Write me a PM with your email address, I´ve got an English translation of the key. Eric was so kind to do it for me.

Regards
Alex

 

[fusion121]

Hi,

some yet unidentified Bothriuridae from Chile.

Regards
Alex

Hi
For number one give this paper a try, the colouration looks quite distinctive:

http://scorpions.dimensional-rift.c...d3N%20CHILENO%20DEL%20GRUPO%20%20VITTATUS.pdf

 

[Ythier]

Hi,
some yet unidentified Bothriuridae from Chile.
Regards
Alex

Wow, the first is wonderful !
Is the third a Botrhiurid ? :?

 

[Nazgul]

Hi,

Oliver, thanks a lot for the tips.

Eric, I guess so but I didn´t have time to examine the species on pic 1 and 3 in detail. The one on the second pic is a Bothriurus sp for sure.

1.) Caraboctonus keyserlingi, male
2.) C. keyserlingi, mating couple
3.) C. keyserlingi spermatophore

Regards
Alex

 

[G. Carnell]

is it just me or do those scorpions look like robots!!?

 

[fusion121]

Very nifty

 

[Nazgul]

is it just me or do those scorpions look like robots!!?

You got me, they ARE robots . I like the appearance of the members of the family Bothriuridae a lot. It´s a shame that they are such rarely available. Well, actually C. keyserlingi isn´t a Bothriurid but it looks like one.

Regards
Alex

 

[Christoph]

Euscorpius cf. tergestinus

 

[G. Carnell]

Euscorpius mhmmm Euscorpius beat most buthids hands down methinks especially beautiful males like that

what does cf mean?

 

[Christoph]

Hi,
I'm not sure in the species.

 

[ThatGuy]

This is Nightmare and Demona. ;P

I was just lookin at this pic and the scorpion on the left hand side does not look like a A. bicolor to me ? the pic is on page 13 and it shows 2 bicolors

 

[Brian S]

Parabuthus transvaalicus


Parabuthus mossambicensis

 

[Christoph]

Babycurus jacksoni freshly molted

 

[Zellhaufen]

Hello,

little Rhopalurus junceus is hunting down a moth

 

[Michael]

Buthus mardochei :}