whats up with this guy?

[venom81]

this is the second one i found this week very defensive but at the end it doesn 't sting much i also seen darker ones and small one with the same attitude.i wonder if anybody cant tell me about this specie.

 

[John Bokma]

Hadrurus sp.? Might help if you give a state and a rough location.

 

[Michiel]

Indeed we need a location. You are probably in SRA, because that looks like a Opisthopthalmus species to me....

John, the chela are to globose and the metasomal segments don't fit for Hadrurus...

PS. North American scorps are not my field, so it could be a NA species, but not Hadrurus I think.

 

[H. laoticus]

Anuroctonus pococki?

 

[John Bokma]

Indeed we need a location. You are probably in SRA, because that looks like a Opisthopthalmus species to me....

John, the chela are to globose and the metasomal segments don't fit for Hadrurus...

Thanks Michiel, it was a wild guess.

 

[sfpearl300z]

Anuroctonus pococki?

2nd, and male based on the aculeus.

 

[venom81]

yeah i think its the last one,i found this guy at work near the san diego border line i did research on the name i got from you guys an d yeah thats the one thanks.most i find is dark brown color ones here in tijuana but what caught my atention is the light color on this guy.

 

[H. laoticus]

yeah i think its the last one,i found this guy at work near the san diego border line i did research on the name i got from you guys an d yeah thats the one thanks.most i find is dark brown color ones here in tijuana but what caught my atention is the light color on this guy.

Nice, did you have to dig most of them out?

 

[venom81]

most of them yeah. i already recognize there burrows sometimes flipping rocks but this one was under a piece of plywood i was actually looking for pill bugs in my lunch break.

 

[Michiel]

Thanks Michiel, it was a wild guess.

so was I, John! I totally missed that typical structure before the aculeus in males of A.pococki.... sfpearl300z is right!