New scorpions

Firstly many thanks to Ray from the BTS for sorting these for me

here's the new additions

Heterometrus Beccaloniae (not sure of sex yet until i have a better look later, but would hazard a guess at male



Heterometrus sp. 'Yellow legs!' Breeding pair
Male

Female


Alex... you appear to be the resident het man... any idea's on the 'yellow legs'

awesome additions!

and the yellow look like Heterometrus madraspatensis

I thought thats what they were but there are a couple of het sp. with yellow legs so i wanted to be sure

they definetly look like 'em, there are almost Identical to any other photos i've seen.


same granulation, metasome, etc.

no madraspatensis primary colour is reddish brown to reddish black... these are blue/greenish black like emps.

They are similar though

you sure?

looks Identical to this one - http://www.spidy.goliathus.com/foto/heterometrus_madraspatensis.jpg


and the one on martin goss' page http://www.martingoss.co.uk/

it may be that they are madras' but there's something that isn't quite right and i cant quite put my finger on it.

Hmmmm....



i'm not trying to be a smart arse or anything lisa lol.

just been looking on mes scorpions and there are quite a few that have yellow legs.

It's weird because under the camera the colour looks red-black, but in natural light they have that emperor look to them

ALEX!

hehehehehe!

if it is a madraspatensis


you owe me a fiver!

SINCE WHEN?

NOW.



MEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE.

Wow, two het species I've never heard of. Nice!

The only one I know of with yellow legs is H. swammerdami, and you'd know if that's what it was 'cause they're massive.

naah these yellow legs aint massive. they are about 10-11 cm length approx.

I'm going to do a proper 'photoshoot' of these as soon as i can so i can get pictures sent to jan ove etc etc to try and get a positive ID.

Hoping Alex will be able to help on these

Heterometrus xanthopus maybe?

they are too big to be the xanthopus. the female is 10cm.
After going through mes scorpions... which seems to have really good descriptions, I think they are madraspatensis after all. I thought the peds were larger from the pictures i have seen on the net but since the peds were closer to the camera lens that may have distorted visual proportions.

All the other 'yellow leg' het species are smaller. And there's about 2(?) of those species that are sexually dimorphic by the peds. and one of those scorps were far to small to be these.

So madraspatensis they appear to be. Pretty cool looking het

And as for the baccaloniae, that was only discovered 2004. Up until I received it today I had never heard of them. A fantastic addition to our 'rarer' side of the collection

Lovely Scorps, especially like the yellow legs! Who's bts?

British Tarantula Society

Do they sell scorpions? Excuse my ignorance

They Are mainly a Tarantula site but there are quite a few people with scorpions. We are members.

They do have a classified and an auction part of the site as well, always worth a check to see if a private breeder has something you want for ya collection