heterometrus ID.. need help

Ok this was sold as H. Spinifer. I looked in to some heterometrus pdf files but I had a hard time comparing . Took a couple of pics and I hope you guys could help me out. This is surely a female








TIA

Instinct tells me it's H. longimanus . . . not 100% positive on that, it's just a gut feeling.

Mr. Mordax can you tell me how you were able to identify it?

I have a large, adult female H. longimanus, and the overall body structure of yours strikes me as being similar enough to think it's the same species. If I remember right, mine has the same pattern of granulation on the carapace, and I know mine has the same elongated telson shape.

Edit: here's a link to my pics: http://mrmordax.net/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=heterometruslongimanus

Edit edit: I may be wrong; yours appears to have some granulation on the chela whereas mine is quite smooth. My second guess would be H. cyanus -- I've heard they're similar in appearance and yours is exhibiting a blue tinge in the pictures.

I really cant confirm on the granulation on the carapace and chela, honestly that is where i am confused. H. longimanus and h. spinifer has almost the same spread of granulation.

Your h. longimanus seems to have a more robust chela than mine. I dont know maybe just the angles.

But yes it does have a greenish blue appearance, especially when taken out on a sunny day.

Do you need more pics? I'll provide more if needed.

On another note. my hets seems to be comfortable in a communal setup. I keep 4 of them. They have been together since 2nd instars til they molted to adults.

I'm sure I read somewhere that granulation on males is a lot more obvious, its for this reason i kept doubting my male H. Petersii was actually an H. Petersii cause his chela and carapace had a bit more prominent granulation than the female but it seems theyre a match cause they attempted mating a week before the female gave birth.

The-Scorp-Whisperer wrote:

I'm sure I read somewhere that granulation on males is a lot more obvious, its for this reason i kept doubting my male H. Petersii was actually an H. Petersii cause his chela and carapace had a bit more prominent granulation than the female but it seems theyre a match cause they attempted mating a week before the female gave birth.

Unfortunately my male died several months ago. I read some hybrid stories Im not exactly sure but heterometrus does mate regardless of sp..?

Sorry for the delayed update.

Took the scorpion out and shot some pics. Still the same scorpion (female).







*zoom



* i just changed the angle



Heterometrus Spinifer granulation


Heterometrus Longimanus granulation


OMG. Did i just solve my own problem? Is it really a H. spinifer?

Yeah, now it looks like spinifer to me. It's a lot smaller than my H. longimanus.

Me thinks she's a definite spinifer.

Yep, definately a spinifer

THanks for the input guys. I feel relieved already. I need to find a male spinifer now.

I first thought it was a spinifer, but when I observed the granulations, I saw that longimanus had granulations in front and behind its eyes, just like the one your picture. Also, spinifer has smoother chelae than longimanus. Spinifer has a dark-coloured telson, longimanus has a red one. And longimanus has a black body colour in all lighting conditions. Considering that only males of longimanus have long chelae, this female might be a longimanus.