ID this scorpion please

It came in on a shipping container from Israel. I know nothing about scorpions and don't know what to do with it. It's alive and pissed. My uneducated guess is a Black Fat tail?

my best guess would be Hottentotta judaicus

Where are you located?

I'm in New Jersey USA. Shipping container it was found on came from Israel

was it sent to you?

That large telson, looks very Parabuthus... not an expert on desert buthids, so its hard to tell the species... but for a proper ID you need to give a much clearer photograph.

In any case if you want to keep it for yourself... put it in a round plastic deli, make holds in the side for ventilation (about 4 or 5 and best done with a soldering iron and without the scorpion inside when you do this)... give it roughly an inch or 2 of dry sand, a bit of bark to scrap a hide under, don't spray any water... just feed with crix...

that should keep it going until you get an accurate ID and proper care requirements...

Best regards

LXDNG79 wrote:

That large telson, looks very Parabuthus... not an expert on desert buthids, so its hard to tell the species... but for a proper ID you need to give a much clearer photograph.

In any case if you want to keep it for yourself... put it in a round plastic deli, make holds in the side for ventilation (about 4 or 5 and best done with a soldering iron and without the scorpion inside when you do this)... give it roughly an inch or 2 of dry sand, a bit of bark to scrap a hide under, don't spray any water... just feed with crix...

that should keep it going until you get an accurate ID and proper care requirements...

Best regards

LXDNG check out this picture
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3643/3403854593_0fe7a0be8e.jpg

look at the marking on the upper carapace and along the mesosoma, most of Parabuthus's metasomas are more fat then that and more chunky. And as far as i know Israel doesnt have Parabuthus sp.

Kejser wrote:

LXDNG check out this picture
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3643/3403854593_0fe7a0be8e.jpg

look at the marking on the upper carapace and along the mesosoma, most of Parabuthus's metasomas are more fat then that and more chunky. And as far as i know Israel doesnt have Parabuthus sp.

Yes, sorry Kejser my bad... after looking around today, I stumbled on to a pic o the net that sent me back here to correct my error... like I said, I'm not an expert on desert buthids. But I'm glad you corrected my mistake... I didn't think of H. judaicus at first... and blur of the plastic container also put me off the size... My mistake.... yes I concur that it should be Hottentotta judaicus...

sorry about that chap!!!

P.S. but I think the care requirements should similar if not identical... I guess you might wanna add some dry coco-fibre with the sand-base substrate.

LXDNG no need to be sorry hehe it can some times be hard to ID scorps