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LXDNG79
Tityus
Number of posts: 550
Age: 33
Location: Malaysia
Registration date: 2008-10-16
| | Subject: Species ID confirmation Lychas and Opistophthalmus 10/26/2009, 12:52 am | |
| Hey guys I need some confirmation/opinions for these scorps I just received a couple of weeks ago... Mystery Scorpionid: a friend of mine guesses it to be Opistophthalmus boehmi.  Heres another shot with more definition on the details but under the warm light the color is a bit off {sorry}  Anyones guess is better than mine... and now... Two very Decorated Lychas: No.1  and No.2  The delis make it kinda blurry... Here's a clearer shot of the telson  Pics on the net veers me towards Lychas infuscatus. Anyone have an argument for marmoreus? |
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Rasputin
Parabuthus
Number of posts: 1052
Age: 29
Registration date: 2008-03-12
| | Subject: Re: Species ID confirmation Lychas and Opistophthalmus 10/26/2009, 12:59 am | |
| I'm going to confirm your first as an O. boehmi, a very muddy (assuming wild caught) one.
And, I'll confirm L. infuscatus for the second. It lacks the markings down the center of the metasomal segments that are prominent in L. marmoreus.
P.S. where did you get them? |
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LXDNG79
Tityus
Number of posts: 550
Age: 33
Location: Malaysia
Registration date: 2008-10-16
| | Subject: Re: Species ID confirmation Lychas and Opistophthalmus 10/26/2009, 1:26 am | |
| | Rasputin wrote: | I'm going to confirm your first as an O. boehmi, a very muddy (assuming wild caught) one.
And, I'll confirm L. infuscatus for the second. It lacks the markings down the center of the metasomal segments that are prominent in L. marmoreus.
P.S. where did you get them? |
Thanks for the quick and stern certainty Rasputin.... that puts my doubts to eternal rest... These scorps were imported from Hong Kong. Over there, the make up their own names for IDs of species. I was told the O. boehmi was sold among a bunch of Scorpio maurus in a pet store and that the Lychas were too small for the frying pan so they were given away (to us luckily). |
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Rasputin
Parabuthus
Number of posts: 1052
Age: 29
Registration date: 2008-03-12
| | Subject: Re: Species ID confirmation Lychas and Opistophthalmus 10/26/2009, 1:40 am | |
| | LXDNG79 wrote: | | I was told the O. boehmi was sold among a bunch of Scorpio maurus in a pet store and that the Lychas were too small for the frying pan so they were given away (to us luckily). |
L. infuscatus is a really common scorp in the trade down there. Them, and Lychas mucronatus.
Damn, now I'm gonna be stuck on that, I totally forgot that Scorpio maurus palmatus was an option - if I had known that you got them from China first, that's what I would have said as they are also really popular down there. For now, I'm going to retract my initial I.D. of O. boehmi and say that it is very likely to be an S.mp. They look a bit alike but the regions don't point to O. boehmi. Ugh, I can't believe I didn't think of that.
You're welcome. Sorry to have pulled the trigger before asking questions on that first scorp. |
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LXDNG79
Tityus
Number of posts: 550
Age: 33
Location: Malaysia
Registration date: 2008-10-16
| | Subject: Re: Species ID confirmation Lychas and Opistophthalmus 10/26/2009, 2:12 am | |
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Rasputin
Parabuthus
Number of posts: 1052
Age: 29
Registration date: 2008-03-12
| | Subject: Re: Species ID confirmation Lychas and Opistophthalmus 10/26/2009, 2:31 am | |
| Well, if you can get some well lit shots from different angles, especially of the pedipalps - I would be able to give a firmer I.D. on that one. |
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rafiqos
Centruroides
Number of posts: 104
Age: 29
Location: Malaysia
Registration date: 2008-04-21
| | Subject: Re: Species ID confirmation Lychas and Opistophthalmus 10/27/2009, 1:19 am | |
| Guess my little guesstimates were not very convincing huh Alex? Lol! |
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Rasputin
Parabuthus
Number of posts: 1052
Age: 29
Registration date: 2008-03-12
| | Subject: Re: Species ID confirmation Lychas and Opistophthalmus 10/27/2009, 2:12 am | |
| Alex, if Raf called out those id's for you, you can trust he's got them marked right, he's a good egg and been around for a while. If he's not absolutely certain, you know he'll mention it. | rafiqos wrote: | | Guess my little guesstimates were not very convincing huh Alex? Lol! |
Hey Raf, I didn't put 2+2 together tonight that it was this Alex you mentioned; his sn is all caps so I confused him with someone else - Obviously, him and I have been conversant recently. I ought to be memorizing everybody's sn and name.
Don't worry Alex, we didn't say anything important or bad, we were just catching up on old times and your name came up - apparently I didn't put 2+2 together and thought of a different person because Raf had your sn lowercased and I said I hadn't talked to you in over a year. |
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I totally understand on the trigger, I share your sentiments... but unfortunately there's nothing we can do about it... Me and bunch of friends are doing captive breeding just because we feel its the right thing to do. 
but since we captive breed, we don't have to always keep buying from pet stores that hurl in WC motherloads.... 
