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Common Name:
Bark Scorpion
Scientific Name:
Centruroides exilicauda
Order and Family:
Buthidae, Buthid Scorpions
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Description:
2-2 3/4″ (50-70 mm). Dark brown to tan, often striped with greenish-yellow along midline above. Some individuals have a greenish-yellow parallel stripe on each side of cephalothorax. Abdomen slender, constricted at each segment, pale or dark according to locality. Tooth at base of the stinger.
Food:
Small insects.
Life Cycle:
Male uses pincers to pull female over a packet of sperm he has placed on the ground. Female gives birth to live young, then carries hatchlings on back until they can fend for themselves.
Habitat:
Dark crevices under bark, stones, and litter on the ground, and on dry abandoned dirt roads.
Range:
Southern and western Arizona, southern Utah, southern Nevada.
Discussion:
These scorpions seize prey in pincer-tipped pedipalps and kill them with their stingers. This species is also sometimes called the Sculptured Centroides (C. sculpturatus).
WARNING: The most dangerous scorpion of the Southwest. Its sting is extremely poisonous and sometimes life-threatening, especially to small children and the elderly.
