Heterometrus Laoticus? Spinifer, Longimanus?

hey guys i just got this scorpion, they told me it was H. Laoticus and i would like the help of the board to confirm this. Im pretty sure it's not H. Longimanus, but i'm not too sure with H. Spinifer. My guess is he really is H. Laoticus. Btw, he's an eating machine









Thanks guys!

My money is on laoticus but I'm no heterometrus expert. Wish Thaedion was here...

can you get some shots of the chelae? I'm gonna guess petersii or longimanus..

Wow, what a divided board.

As stated, H. laoticus is the only Heterometrus sp. that has a smooth carapace, and there's definitely granulation present in this specimen. H. longimanus have elongated chela (hence the name), so it's definitely not that.

Of the available options, I'd say H. spinifer, but I can't eliminate something like H. petersii.

Does anyone have that PDF of the granulation patterns for this whole genus?

crap! lol
xD

ok guys i will surely take more pics for this haha
i will do it later today!
thanks for replying so far

mike;

http://www.science.marshall.edu/fet/euscorpius/p2004_15.pdf

I thought only male longimanus..es had super-long pedipalps?

Females have long ones, males have really long ones.

Edit: That's not the PDF I was thinking of; there's one where it shows a typical carapace and fifth metasoma segment for each species, highlighting the granulation pattern. I'll see if I can find it.

I can has? (If you find it)

Found it! Bottom of linked page below, in G. Carnell's post. It's a ZIP file of several PDFs, each is a page and has a few diagrams that should be useful for IDing hets.

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=77160

ahhh, thanks mike.

here are the new pics
hopefully this will make it easier
im pretty sure it's not laoticus

mestill thinks it is petersii..

WOW two pinheads at a time lol My H.spin does not have the redness in the pedipalps nor are they that big.

diabollicallycursed wrote:

WOW two pinheads at a time lol My H.spin does not have the redness in the pedipalps nor are they that big.

hahaha
yeah, he's a monster xD
he's lightning fast too, i drop them in and he dashes after them

and i think you may be right scorpion111, i'm leaning towards Petersii

I don't think it's H.spin

Wouldn't it be cool if it was swammerdami

diabollicallycursed wrote:

Wouldn't it be cool if it was swammerdami

lol i wish
then i could've gotten one for 13 bucks xD

deff. not swammerdami.. It would be kool though. usually cost a few hundred dollars

They ARE the largest scorp in the world right?

Those aren't pinheads.

H. laoticus (the poster, not the species) -- did you check out this link?

Mr. Mordax wrote:

Found it! Bottom of linked page below, in G. Carnell's post. It's a ZIP file of several PDFs, each is a page and has a few diagrams that should be useful for IDing hets.

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=77160

Try going there and comparing the granulation patterns of yours to those shown in the download.

http://s4.zetaboards.com/HerpinVerts/topic/114112/1/

this site proved helpful to me
Petersii for me