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Urodacus yaschenkoi, also known as the inland scorpion or the desert scorpion, is a species of scorpion belonging to the family Urodacidae. It is native to central Australia. It is also referred as the desert robust scorpion, because of its robust black colour and a long tail lined with a deadly hook.
Its diet consists of large insects, spiders, and small vertebrates. [2] Its competitors include the giant desert centipede which is also a natural predator to the scorpion. This is an active and aggressive, if provoked, scorpion, which, as with all scorpions, is nocturnal. Like all scorpions, the giant desert hairy scorpion gives birth to live ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Desert hairy scorpion can refer to the following scorpion species in the genus Hadrurus: Giant ...
The Arizona bark scorpion (Centruroides sculpturatus, once included in Centruroides exilicauda) is a small light brown scorpion common to the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. An adult male can reach 8 centimetres (3.1 in) of body length, while a female is slightly smaller, with a maximum length of 7 ...
Hadrurus spadix requires high temperatures, and do best at 30–35 °C (86–95 °F) during the day, with a sharp drop in temperatures (to 20 °C (68 °F)) during the night to mimic desert conditions. As with all scorpions, this species can be fed most types of small insects, though crickets remain the most common choice.
Urodacus armatus, also known as the yellow sand scorpion or inland desert scorpion, is a species of scorpion in the Urodacidae family. It is native to Australia . It was first described in 1888 by British zoologist Reginald Innes Pocock .
Paruroctonus utahensis is a species of scorpion, commonly referred to as the eastern sand scorpion. [2] [3] It has a range from Utah (which is where the species epithet comes from) to Chihuahua, Mexico. [4] It feeds on many types of arthropods, with one of its most important prey items being Ammobaenetes phrixocnemoides. [5]
Leiurus quinquestriatus can be found in desert and scrubland habitats ranging from North Africa through to the Middle East. Its range covers a wide sweep of territory in the Sahara, Arabian Desert, Thar Desert, and Central Asia, from Algeria and Mali in the west through to Egypt, Ethiopia, Asia Minor and the Arabian Peninsula, eastwards to Kazakhstan and western India in the northeast and ...