Wood Scorpion: S4, Male, Stinger

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida)

Order:

Scorpions (Scorpiones)

Family:

Scorpion (Bothriuridae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Wood Scorpion (Cercophonius kershawi)

This Photo:

🔍S4, Male, Stinger🔎

Thank you Mark Newton for identifying and Cael Gallery (DaBugBoi) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
S4 was ~9 SVL
Note scorpions have 8 legs, like spiders, but their claws/pincers are additional and are actually modified pedipalps.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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