My Parabuthus granulatus and capensis

[shadowfoot]

Saw people posting pics of their inverts, so I thought I would share some pics of my scorpions.
Just love these guys. As you can see both have some attitude problems.
Sorry for the flash, they only come out at night and the light in the room where they are housed is not that useful for taking photos.

Hope you enjoy

Parabuthus granulatus:



Parabuthus capensis:

[lexer]

hy.

nice species and pictures
what for problems do you mean ?

regards alex

[shadowfoot]

Just a joke about them being very agressive.

[lexer]

be carefull with them, Parabuthus spp. can also hurl his poison.

regards alex

[shadowfoot]

I think I read somewhere that P.granulatus is unable to do so and I also think capensis cant either. Maybe someone can shed some light on this?

[lexer]

I'm not sure if every Parabuthus can that... but it can be possible.

regards alex

[it_bit_me]

Parabuthus transvaalensis can. :0

[shadowfoot]

"Certain Buthidae scorpions spray venom up to 1 metre and the fifth metosomal (tail) segments of these scorpions are enlarged.
The 3 species cited are Parabuthus schlechteri, P. transvaalicus and P. villosus . This has not yet been documented conclusively and is refuted by some experts"
Taken from biodiversityexplorer.org

[snake kid]

All looks male, you got any females? Nice specimens though.

[shadowfoot]

Nope, only males.
Just trying to get their requirements perfect and then maybe get females for them and then hopefully start breeding.

[lexer]

good luck with your Projeckt

regards alex

[shadowfoot]

Just an update. Found a female P. granulatus for my male and hopefully she is gravid. If she is I'm hoping for some scorplings in about 7-11months.

Female:







sorry for the photo quality, my camera decided to break all of a sudden, so everything was taken with my phone.

[shadowfoot]

Can some of the more experienced scorp guys tell me if she might be gravid?

[Scorpion]

What areas were the male "granulatus" and male "capensis" found? Also where was the female "granulatus" found?

I am not convinced on the species...those granulatus are very light

If the female was caught that fat, then she could very well be gravid.

Thanks
Scorpion

[shadowfoot]

@Scorpion, the P. granulatus is from Barrydale, I dont know the location of the capensis. Im 100% sure that its granulatus though. The granulatus seem to be much lighter in colour down in the Western Cape than the ones up north or it could be the flash I used to snap pics of them.