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The Arizona bark scorpion is the most venomous scorpion in North America, and its venom can cause severe pain (coupled with numbness, tingling, and vomiting) in adult humans, typically lasting between 24 and 72 hours. [4]
H. arizonensis is the largest scorpion in North America, [2] and one of the 8–9 species of Hadrurus in the United States, attaining a length of 14 cm (5.5 in). [3] This species is usually yellow with a dark top [3] and has crab-like pincers.
Superstitionia donensis is a species of scorpion, the only species in the genus Superstitionia and the family Superstitioniidae. [1]This species was discovered in Arizona in 1940 by H.L Stahnke and predominately is found in western New Mexico, Arizona, extreme southern Nevada, and southern California in the United States.
Sightings of P. boreus have been reported over broad areas of North America and it is described as one of the most widely spread scorpions on the continent. [4] [5] In the United States, areas where it is found include the state of Arizona in the Southwest, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota in the Midwest, and most of the West region (California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon ...
This is a list of the known extant reptiles of Arizona. [1] The Arizona state reptile is the Arizona ridge-nosed rattlesnake (Crotalus willardi willardi). [2]
Mastigoproctus giganteus female with egg sac Pet male whip scorpion. Mastigoproctus giganteus is the only species of family Thelyphonidae that occurs in the United States, [7] where it is found in Arizona, Florida, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. [8] Vinegaroons are efficient predators of scorpions and are sometimes acquired for that purpose. [9]
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.
A striped scorpion hiding among rocks at Taum Sauk Mountain State Park. A medium-sized scorpion that is rarely longer than 70 mm (up to around 2 3/4 in), the striped bark scorpion is a uniform pale-yellow scorpion that can be identified by two dark, longitudinal stripes on its carapace, with a dark triangle above the ocular tubercle.