a preview of project #1, these was a bit of confusion, but this import only contained 11 of the species i was after (only 1 gravid female, the rest were instars). I decided to pick up a few babies and the gravid female:



And no it's not T. asthenes

forgot to add, first person to guess the species as well as explain what makes it unique (should only take like 1 sentence) will win one free baby from the first brood i produce

Split from this post
http://scorpionforum.darkbb.com/scorpions-in-general-f12/guess-who-s-back-here-is-what-i-ve-got-going-on-this-summer-t3099.htm

Tityus metuendus, it's an all female, parthenogenic species.

Blind guess. Centruroides nigrescens - for it matt finish look and coarse granulation on the topside of the mesosoma.

Cool just found this, thought i was going insane when the post disappeared from that other thread. The only rules are:

1) only one guess per person, your first guess counts, no edited posts count
2) in order to be a %100 correct guess, the genus and species name must be correct, as must be the fact about it that makes it so unique in the scorpion world.
3) the person who is closest to having the name, and fact correct wins
4) you can guess the same scientific name as some one else if you think the fact they gave is incorrect in some way, in such an event the more correct answer wins!

good luck!

Hahaha

Tityus obscurus (=Tityus paraensis = T. cambridgei) Depends on what Sysnome your using

But the special thing with these sp is that the young ones of this scorpion is redish or yellowish with spots

Ar... Nvm....

i think i know...

Tityus metuendus
- They are parthenogenesis sp
- 1st time being import to US
- Potent venom

My guess is also Tityus paraensis, the unique thing is that the males have freakishly long chela.

*fingers crossed*

Jared's guess from after the split:

Canth wrote:

No hint on the locale? Oh well... I'm going to go with parthenogenic Tityus dedoslargos. I don't know if that species can even be parthenogenic, but I can't think of any other species your pic reminds me of. What ever it is, good look with it! Ok....apparently the posts I was replying to are now gone.

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Tityus paraensis. Males have elongated chelae

*wonders why everone is guessing the same as him

guess its closer... but where is Tabor? are we close or really2 have to concentrate more to get the correct answer...