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Scorpions detect their prey with mechanoreceptive and chemoreceptive hairs on their bodies and capture them with their claws. Small animals are merely killed with the claws, particularly by large-clawed species. Larger and more aggressive prey is given a sting. [86] [87] Scorpions, like other arachnids, digest their food externally.
The Buthidae are the largest family of scorpions, containing about 100 genera and 1339 species as of 2022. [2] A few very large genera (Ananteris, Centruroides, Compsobuthus, or Tityus) are known, but a high number of species-poor or monotypic ones also exist. [2] New taxa are being described at a rate of several new species per year. [2]
Hottentotta tamulus, the Indian red scorpion, also known as the eastern Indian scorpion, is a species of scorpion of the family Buthidae. It occurs in most of India , [ 2 ] eastern Pakistan [ 1 ] and the eastern lowlands of Nepal , [ 3 ] and recently from Sri Lanka .
Pseudoscorpions, also known as false scorpions or book scorpions, [1] are small, scorpion-like arachnids belonging to the order Pseudoscorpiones, also known as Pseudoscorpionida or Chelonethida. Pseudoscorpions are generally beneficial to humans because they prey on clothes moth larvae, carpet beetle larvae, booklice , ants , mites , and small ...
It was only the second genus of scorpion as all species known to this date were included in the sole genus Scorpio Linné, 1758. Leach found Scorpio occitanus Amoreux , 1789 to differ from the other species of Scorpio known to him by having eight eyes (two median eyes and six lateral eyes) instead of six (two median eyes and four lateral eyes).
Order Palpigradi (Microwhip scorpions) Order †Uraraneida; Order Schizomida (Short-tailed whip scorpions) Order Pseudoscorpionida (Pseudoscorpions, or false scorpions) Order Scorpiones (True scorpions) Order Uropygi (Thelyphonida s.s., whip scorpions) Order †Trigonotarbida; Order Opiliones (Harvestmen, also known as daddy longlegs) Order ...
Nepa is a genus belonging to the family Nepidae, known as water scorpions.Species are found in freshwater habitats in the Northern Hemisphere. [2] [3] [4]They are oval-bodied, aquatic insects with raptorial front legs.
Hadogenes troglodytes is a species of scorpion from southern Africa.It is commonly known as the flat rock scorpion and commonly sold on the exotic pet market. [1] [2] It was once regarded as having the longest recorded body length of any scorpion, reaching up to 20 cm; [3] however Heterometrus swammerdami currently holds the record for being the world's largest scorpion at 9 inches (23 cm) in ...