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Opistophthalmus scorpions are typically heavily built for scorpions, and have broad, powerful claws ().They vary in color from yellow through brown to black, usually with darker or lighter areas.
Schizomida, also known as sprickets [1] or short-tailed whip-scorpions, [2] is an order of arachnids, generally less than 5 millimetres (0.20 in) in length.The order is not yet widely studied.
Opistophalmus glabrifrons (commonly known as the shiny burrow scorpion [1] [2] or the yellow-legged burrowing scorpion [3] [4]) is a large (adult size: 11–15 cm [5] [3]) species of burrowing scorpion found in Southern and Eastern Africa.
The word scorpion originated in Middle English between 1175 and 1225 AD from Old French scorpion, [1] or from Italian scorpione, both derived from the Latin scorpio, equivalent to scorpius, [2] which is the romanization of the Greek σκορπίος – skorpíos, [3] with no native IE etymology (cfr.
Because of their legs, claws, and "whip", though, they can appear much larger, and the heaviest specimen weighed was 12.4 grams (0.44 oz). [15] The opisthosoma consists of 12 segments. The first segment forms a pedicel, and each of the next eight segments has dorsal tergites. The last three segments are fused into closed rings that ends with ...
Members of Pandinus are generally large scorpions (about 120–200 mm total length), which are dark to black colored, sometimes with paler metasoma and legs. The pedipalp pincers are massive, while the metasoma is proportionally thin with a small vesicle and stinger (aculeus).
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