Very rare scorpion

A friend of mine that I've known for a few years did a import a couple days ago and he was supposed to get some rare Centruroides but instead he ended up getting some decent ones but he also got some rare Tityus species, and I managed to convince him to sell me some, though he only didn't have any males, I purchased the females that looked gravid from the pictures and they came in, so here are the pictures.







This one here looked dead when I first took her out, and she wasn't responding to anything not even the tweezers on the back of the tail to try to nudge her forward so I almost presumed her as possible DOA and then out of nowhere she came to life and decided to shoot up my arm which really freaked me out because as some of you know Tityus are among some of the more venomous in the hobby. Luckily I managed after about 5 minutes of trying to get her onto a piece of bark she finally went. I can't say that I'd ever want a close call like that.

Here are some pictures of my Tityus obscurus 3rd instar.

By the way, I posted this thread elsewhere and I just realized that I forgot to post it here, so the original information on that post is from sometime last week.

Nice Tityus aesthenes (?). I had a couple of young instars myself, but unfortunately they passed away. Those look like healthy adults, a very sleek species.

They are some great looking scorpions. Yes Aesthenes I think so too.

Oh sorry, I keep forgetting to put what they are. They are Tityus obscurus but they do look the same as asthenes. Tityus obscurus were formerly known as Tityus paraensis.

Thanks, yea the scorpions are great. This is one that I've wanted for years and now I finally have. The three females should be gravid, one I can see embryo's on and the other one looks like she will start to show soon but the third isn't showing yet.

how much a piece?

pluto wrote:

how much a piece?

Well depending on if that third female or not will decide if I sell any. With me being the only person in the US to have Tityus obscurus I will keep at least two broods to mature them out so that way I can have pairs to get the species more established. I'm going for 4-6 males and 5-7 females. After I know that I have that I will start selling them in counts of 3. The reason is because selling one or two isn't as high of a chance of getting a pair, but selling in 3's gives people a better chance, though I will only do this for the rare species and not the more common ones in the hobby. Just keep in touch with me via email at neal@invertworld.net or you can message me on here anytime.

Congratulations man, they're beautiful. I'm hoping on some L. Mucronatus in the coming month.

Bedlam wrote:

Congratulations man, they're beautiful. I'm hoping on some L. Mucronatus in the coming month.

Awesome. Lychas are a great species. I plan on getting Lychas scutilus sometime later this year or next year, I just have to arrange for the scorpions to be available around the time my friend imports snakes from Malaysia. Then I can successfully start on my projects and getting them readily available in the US.

Tityus obscurus are beautiful Neal

Neal wrote:

Bedlam wrote:

Congratulations man, they're beautiful. I'm hoping on some L. Mucronatus in the coming month.

Awesome. Lychas are a great species. I plan on getting Lychas scutilus sometime later this year or next year, I just have to arrange for the scorpions to be available around the time my friend imports snakes from Malaysia. Then I can successfully start on my projects and getting them readily available in the US.

I'm hoping on the same results even though I've never shipped anything. I want to end making them such a hard find here and end the lack of knowledge on them although LXDNG posted a helluva article on them awhile back. Good luck to you.

*~BEX~* wrote:

Tityus obscurus are beautiful Neal

Thanks. They're tied with Lychas scutilus as my favorite.

Bedlam wrote:

Neal wrote:

Bedlam wrote:

Congratulations man, they're beautiful. I'm hoping on some L. Mucronatus in the coming month.

Awesome. Lychas are a great species. I plan on getting Lychas scutilus sometime later this year or next year, I just have to arrange for the scorpions to be available around the time my friend imports snakes from Malaysia. Then I can successfully start on my projects and getting them readily available in the US.

I'm hoping on the same results even though I've never shipped anything. I want to end making them such a hard find here and end the lack of knowledge on them although LXDNG posted a helluva article on them awhile back. Good luck to you.

Thanks, and I may be able to point you in the direction with the Lychas mucronatus.

Awesome scorps bro.
I've wanted some Tityus's for a while and just got my first T. stigmurus's in.
Hopefully some T. magnimanus soon but those T. obscurus are sexy and fingers crossed for ya bro that 3rd is prego too so we can see more of these out there.

Good luck !

leiurusSaleen820 wrote:

Awesome scorps bro.
I've wanted some Tityus's for a while and just got my first T. stigmurus's in.
Hopefully some T. magnimanus soon but those T. obscurus are sexy and fingers crossed for ya bro that 3rd is prego too so we can see more of these out there.

Good luck !

Thanks. My goal is to establish them in my collection then in the hobby. For that purpose when I have babies I'm only going to sell in trios. I may sell in pairs to certain people that may not be able to get trios, but I won't be selling any singles because no way to breed if you only get one, at least with a pair or trio you have a chance of getting both sexes.

Here are some pictures of my newly acquired Tityus obscurus male.

cool nice scorpions dude. Now I know what to expect later on :-D

Are they adult?

pluto wrote:

cool nice scorpions dude. Now I know what to expect later on :-D

Are they adult?

Yep, the visual sexual dimorphism isn't noticeable until adults.

Oh ok i thought they were black when fully adult, almost pitchblack.

pluto wrote:

Oh ok i thought they were black when fully adult, almost pitchblack.

I guess many things are dependent on that. My females are black.