What species is tis scorpion?

[XOskeletonRED]

All [8] named parthenogenetic species I have located are as follows...


A. coineaui
H. hottentota
L. australasiae
T. stigmurus - complete complex of four morphs, incl. T. serrulatus
T. uruguayensis
T. columbianus
T. trivittatus
T. metuendus

There is also a parthenogenetic species which consists of only males. It is unnamed, so it could be one of the above, but I believe it was just unnamed. I'll see if I can locate it and add it to this post.


adios,
edw.

 

[Frank]

According to dictionary.com parthenogenetic means self-reproduction. So hottentota hottentota are parthenogenetic too? Interesting


Thanks, Frank

 

[XOskeletonRED]

Originally posted by FrankQC
According to dictionary.com parthenogenetic means self-reproduction. So hottentota hottentota are parthenogenetic too? Interesting


Thanks, Frank

That is correct, Frank


adios,
edw.

 

[Frank]

Okay, so if I get h. hottentotta, I'll be able to breed him-her without having to fear male-female canibalism heh...

That's very interesting, really, I think I'll add h. hottentotta to my list of scorp to get in the future.


edit: Hmm, you say that there's one species that are males only, and they can be in the list you wrote. So the 7 in the list are females only? How can males breed, if they only have the males gonades?

Oh and edw, according to the scorpionfiles it is hottentotta and not hottentota


Thanks, Frank

 

[XOskeletonRED]

Not all of the said species are all of one sex (as stated with Tityus serrulatus in another post of mine quite recently) and just because they are capeable of parthenogenesis, doesn't mean they will under the circumstances provided.

The males being parthenogenetic is along the same lines as the females, though the sexual configuration, from what I gather, is somewhat more complicated. Developement of the young still takes place within the adult scorpion's body, from what I have read (not very much information about the species or anything else, to include the scientific name being posted and being stated to be parthenogenetic as a male only species).


I know the spelling. I copied and pasted though, then only edited information of the complex of T. stigmurus.


adios,
edw.

 

[ThiagoMassa]

Black Light

I have bought a black lamp today and lighted my scorp. I've ever heard about greenish and blueish colours on people scorps but my T. serrulatus glows yellow! Unfortunately, i don´t have a good camera so i could not take a good pic but it´s really beatifull! I have a picture (really bad =D), but you´ll have an idea...

 

[ThiagoMassa]

Oh, well... as you can see, you CAN´T have any idea of it...
but.. I tried...