Spider-hunting Scorpion
Ventral
Two-toned Thicktail Scorpion
Profile, Tail Up
| Spider-hunting Scorpion Ventral | | Two-toned Thicktail Scorpion Profile, Tail Up | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida) | |||
| Order: | Scorpions (Scorpiones) | ||||
| Family: | Scorpion (Buthidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Two-toned Thicktail Scorpion (Lychas cf jonesae) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍Dorsal🔎 | ||||
Thank you Ethan Yeoman for confirming and Dr Erich Volschenk for helping with the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~8mm long (SVL), ie not including the tail. This was a very non-agressive scorpion, keeping it's tail down most of the time to try and hide and become inconspicuous. Notice the 2-pronged spine, which differentiates scorpion groups. Thanks to Mark Hura, this 2-pronged spine is called a "subaculear spine". Erich made a note on our Lychas sp ES02 that the SA specimens of L. jonesae are part of a species complex in the L. jonesae group. In time they'll hopefully get their own species name. We photographed one in Mar. | |||||
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