Bothrirus keyserlingi Gravid Female :D

Heres what came today for my birthday lol:

Bothirurus keyserlingi Gravid Adult Female

Oh good god. Don't look at her funny or she might explode!

On a side note, I didn't realize the scorps in this genus were so small!

Mr. Mordax wrote:

Oh good god. Don't look at her funny or she might explode!

On a side note, I didn't realize the scorps in this genus were so small!

Hi Mordax,

Aye shes really big.. although shes only like 3cm or so.. The babies must be frigging tiny

Forgive me if i'm wrong but is that not a Caraboctonus Keyserlingi did they get reclassified or is it just a different genus with the same species name?

The-Scorp-Whisperer wrote:

Forgive me if i'm wrong but is that not a Caraboctonus Keyserlingi did they get reclassified or is it just a different genus with the same species name?

I know little about Carboctonus.. was sold this as a Bothrirus keyserlingi.. I dont think it got reclassified. Must be just a different genus, same species name.

ok cool its just they look really similar from what i can remember that i thought they might have been reclassified like Vaejovis to Hoffmanius

completely different scorpion, C keyserlingi!
i've had both
B keyserlingi is tiny and chocolate brown...C keyserlingi is less round, bigger (moderately) and dark red.

check the scorpion files, though the female C keyserlingi is gravid...so rounder than usual! but B keyserlingi is just a bit more round in shape going by tergites, not obesity.

Peter, that's a great little girl and i hope she is very productive! wish you the best of luck with her

orite, thats fine, its been a while since I've looed at C. Kerserlingi so i couldnt remember exactly.

And yeah PRS thats one VERY gravid girl u have there like, wont be long and youll have plenth of babies to feed lol

Thanks guys lol

will these be for sale wen they pop out?

Some will be aye, depending on how many I get

lol by the looks of the pic it will be quite a fue

Looks exactly like my Bothriurus sp.

Think mine might be bigger:


I've been waiting over a year since I noticed she was gravid for her to drop the brood ...

must be a big brood then.... Hopefully

bothriurus (bothriuridae) and caraboctonus (caraoctonidae) are completely different families, they just look very similar.

lol check out my yellow chilean scorp in.. ever so slightly fat thread!

Looks like a Both keyser!

Small and tightly packed.

It is the case that Herr Keyserling discovered many different animals and there is a Keyserling named species in at least 3 cases that I know of.

AJL