I thought I would share some photos of my scorpion collection, I'll start with my favourite genus, the Liocheles spp. This genus is a taxonomic mess so most are just Liocheles sp. "location" I have only one described species in my collection, the largest it's rumored to reach 120mm.
Liocheles sp. "Bundaberg" this one has tiny males.
Various locales from around Brisbane, the species between Bundaberg and Brisbane all appear to be the same with only small differences in the pedipalps.
Liocheles sp. "Tablelands" my largest one so far, very few of these in the hobby, I only have females and know of only 2 others with them.
Liocheles sp. "red" these guys are very aggresive for the genus, they are the only known arid species and some individuals have a red sheen. They build a burrow while all others in this genus live in rock cracks or bark, there is an arboreal species as well.
A comparison of all 4, they are all lumped under one species right now but they're obviously different.
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Next the Urodacus, some stunning species in this genus but the best looking ones are not in the hobby (IMO)
Urodacus manicatus
Babies
Urodacus elongatus
Urodacus spinatus
Urodacus yaschenkoi
I have an adult pair of Urodacus macrurus comming tomorrow, they're a protected species so quite hard to get, they're around 100mm
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The buthids, there are several genus in this family.
Isometroides vescus, my favourite species from this group.
Lychas sp. "riverlands"
Lychas marmoreous parkes
And that's everything I currently have photos of.
Liocheles sp. "Bundaberg" this one has tiny males.
Various locales from around Brisbane, the species between Bundaberg and Brisbane all appear to be the same with only small differences in the pedipalps.
Liocheles sp. "Tablelands" my largest one so far, very few of these in the hobby, I only have females and know of only 2 others with them.
Liocheles sp. "red" these guys are very aggresive for the genus, they are the only known arid species and some individuals have a red sheen. They build a burrow while all others in this genus live in rock cracks or bark, there is an arboreal species as well.
A comparison of all 4, they are all lumped under one species right now but they're obviously different.
---------- Post added 08-01-2012 at 10:23 AM ----------
Next the Urodacus, some stunning species in this genus but the best looking ones are not in the hobby (IMO)
Urodacus manicatus
Babies
Urodacus elongatus
Urodacus spinatus
Urodacus yaschenkoi
I have an adult pair of Urodacus macrurus comming tomorrow, they're a protected species so quite hard to get, they're around 100mm
---------- Post added 08-01-2012 at 10:48 AM ----------
The buthids, there are several genus in this family.
Isometroides vescus, my favourite species from this group.
Lychas sp. "riverlands"
Lychas marmoreous parkes
And that's everything I currently have photos of.
