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Bobafett2k6 Pandinus

Number of posts : 16 Age : 39 Location : North East England Registration date : 2013-04-21
 | Subject: Juvenile Heterometrus ID 4/21/2013, 2:04 pm | |
| Hi all, This is a juvenile, 2-3" sold to me as Asian Forest Scorpion but the staff in the shop weren't sure.      It would also be useful to me in future if you could explain your reasons. Thanks in advance. |
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Bobafett2k6 Pandinus

Number of posts : 16 Age : 39 Location : North East England Registration date : 2013-04-21
 | Subject: Re: Juvenile Heterometrus ID 4/22/2013, 5:04 am | |
| Anyone got any ideas? It's the one I'm most keen to identify. |
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Scorpion19981000 Administrator

Number of posts : 1895 Age : 21 Location : Cortland, New York Registration date : 2011-07-03
 | Subject: Re: Juvenile Heterometrus ID 4/24/2013, 5:03 pm | |
| It's more difficult to ID immature scorpions...particularly Heterometrus.
Frankly I'm not sure.
It's not a H. spinifer, nor does it particularly look like a H. longimanus.
Male or female?
Does it have carapace granulation? From the first pic it doesn't look like it has any, but in the later pics it looks like it has some. Might just be my bad vision, reflection, or the angle of the pics.
_________________ "Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you."-Muhammad Ali My Youtube Channel.- My inverts:
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Scorpions: 0.1.0 Androctonus bicolor 1.0.0 Centruroides nigrescens 0.0.1 Heterometrus longimanus 0.1.0 Hottentotta hottentotta 1.0.1 Pandinopsis dictator 2.0.0 Pandinus imperator Tarantulas: 0.1.0 Avicularia avicularia 0.0.1 Brachypelma albiceps 0.1.0 Brachypelma vagans 1.0.0 Psalmopoeus cambridgei Other Arachnids: 1.1.0 Damon diadema
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Bobafett2k6 Pandinus

Number of posts : 16 Age : 39 Location : North East England Registration date : 2013-04-21
 | Subject: Re: Juvenile Heterometrus ID 4/24/2013, 5:37 pm | |
| Yeah it has granulation around the edge of the carapace.
I asked on another forum, and also came up with this being petersii too.
Just out of curiosity, what makes you immediately rule out spinifer? |
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Scorpion19981000 Administrator

Number of posts : 1895 Age : 21 Location : Cortland, New York Registration date : 2011-07-03
 | Subject: Re: Juvenile Heterometrus ID 4/24/2013, 5:41 pm | |
| Probably H. petersii then. H. spinifer don't have dark telsons, and your scorp doesn't have a pronounced internal tubercle on the patella. Looking at the pics again, I see a very small one, but it's nowhere near as pronounced as it is in H. spinifer. EDIT: Here are the ID keys with examples: - Heterometrus petersii:
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- Heterometrus spinifer:
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_________________ "Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you."-Muhammad Ali My Youtube Channel.- My inverts:
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Scorpions: 0.1.0 Androctonus bicolor 1.0.0 Centruroides nigrescens 0.0.1 Heterometrus longimanus 0.1.0 Hottentotta hottentotta 1.0.1 Pandinopsis dictator 2.0.0 Pandinus imperator Tarantulas: 0.1.0 Avicularia avicularia 0.0.1 Brachypelma albiceps 0.1.0 Brachypelma vagans 1.0.0 Psalmopoeus cambridgei Other Arachnids: 1.1.0 Damon diadema
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Bobafett2k6 Pandinus

Number of posts : 16 Age : 39 Location : North East England Registration date : 2013-04-21
 | Subject: Re: Juvenile Heterometrus ID 4/24/2013, 5:44 pm | |
| Thanks for your help, just gonna take a look at your youtube channel now  |
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Scorpion19981000 Administrator

Number of posts : 1895 Age : 21 Location : Cortland, New York Registration date : 2011-07-03
 | Subject: Re: Juvenile Heterometrus ID 4/24/2013, 5:46 pm | |
| Haha, no problem.
Not much to look at on my youtube channel I'm afraid....video function on my camera wasn't great to begin with, now it's completely unusable. Still, I've got a decent video of my emp walking around. _________________ "Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you."-Muhammad Ali My Youtube Channel.- My inverts:
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Scorpions: 0.1.0 Androctonus bicolor 1.0.0 Centruroides nigrescens 0.0.1 Heterometrus longimanus 0.1.0 Hottentotta hottentotta 1.0.1 Pandinopsis dictator 2.0.0 Pandinus imperator Tarantulas: 0.1.0 Avicularia avicularia 0.0.1 Brachypelma albiceps 0.1.0 Brachypelma vagans 1.0.0 Psalmopoeus cambridgei Other Arachnids: 1.1.0 Damon diadema
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