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Lychas marmoreus, also known as the marbled scorpion, little marbled scorpion or bark scorpion, is a species of small scorpion in the Buthidae family. It is native to Australia , and was first described in 1845 by German arachnologist Carl Ludwig Koch .
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 ...
This would suggest that males take 2 – 3 years and females 2.5 – 4 years to reach adulthood. The life expectancy of the species is taken to be between 4 and 8 years in the wild, while a specimen has been observed to live for over 10 years in a laboratory. [9] The scorpion leads a solitary life and spends most of its life in hiding.
Euscorpius is a genus of scorpions, commonly called small wood-scorpions. It presently contains 65 species and is the type genus of the family Euscorpiidae – long included in the Chactidae [3] – and the subfamily Euscorpiinae. The most common members belong to the E. carpathicus species complex, which makes up the subgenus Euscorpius. [2]
Scorpio maurus is a species of North African and Middle Eastern scorpion, also known as the large-clawed scorpion or Israeli gold scorpion and lesser known as Zerachia scorpion. This is a small/medium-sized scorpion 3 inches (76 mm) from the family Scorpionidae. It has brown back and golden claws. There are many sub-species of this scorpion, 19 ...
Vaejovis carolinianus is a small, dark scorpion from the southeastern United States. Common within good habitat, this species can be locally abundant. Generally less than 2 inches in length with both claws and tail extended.
Lychas buchari, also known as the yellow sand scorpion or Buchar's scorpion, is a species of small scorpion in the Buthidae family. It is native to Australia , and was first described in 1997 by Czech arachnologist Frantisek Kovarik.
This species is found mainly in the Palaearctic region, in such countries as Turkey, [4] Iran, and other southwestern Asian nations. [5] [1] A. crassicauda lives in the ruins of old, neglected structures, [1] and was considered a potential hazard for troops during the Persian Gulf conflict, though it was an unaggressive species that had no reports of stings. [3]