Heterometrus swammerdami vs Pandinus imperator

Who is the largest?

Heterometrus swammerdami=biggest

And who is more robust and heaviest?

i dont know .... depends on male/female .... gravid...
the longest is some flatrock species because of their tails

I never seen more robust scorp than imperator.

then you havent seen p. cavimanus

swammerdami??

Pulmonoscorpius wrote:

I never seen more robust scorp than imperator.

i couldbe wrong i think this should be moved to the Emperor Zone forum

i do believe it's the H. longimanus is the biggest of the heterometrus genus

the H. swammeridami is the bigger one than the Emp.

being more robust, i would have no guess on that one

_scorpio_ wrote:

then you havent seen p. cavimanus

i have to agree all the way

My female H. longimanus dwarfs my P. imperator, and I've heard that H. swammerdami is slightly larger.

This? I thought its imperator.

^That's P. cavimanus. Same genus, different species.

Venom, is that a forest-morph emperor?

That would be my guess.

So cavimanus is larger then imperator? So why imperator called imperator?
Heterometrus how I see lighter, not so robust. But very nice scorpions, fo exemple - longimanus.

As far as I know, P. imperator is larger than P. cavimanus -- but my cavimanus are immature so I can't make a direct comparison myself.

And as for the name . . . that's what Koch felt like calling it back in 1841.

yeah I think the swammerdami is the "biggest" scorp, but I would say the "bulkiest" scorp is pandinus imperator. but I dunno.... some hets i've seen are huge...

Swammerdami's are HUGE!!! I'm getting an adult after my exams next week

very nice.. are you getting it at the bts show? or at a shop?
you could pick one up for less at the bts