2 Little Marbled Scorpion at Stromlo, ACT
Identification history
| Lychas marmoreus | 26 Nov 2021 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Lychas variatus | 26 Nov 2021 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Lychas variatus | 23 Nov 2021 | trevorpreston |
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Scorpion 12-15mm
3 comments
trevorpreston
wrote:
26 Nov 2021
How odd, it was only an accident I put this in as variatus, I thought I put it as mamoreus. Can you tell me the main differences between the two?
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
26 Nov 2021
I thought that variatus had a light body with brown marking and mamoreus was a dark body with light spots, but your question made melon more closely. This paper shows the differences in leg, nippers and sting
http://kovarex.com/scorpio/pdf/2019m-Lychas_Mesobuthus.pdf.
Sorry your claim to local scorpion fame was so short-lived and down to a mis-identification by me.
http://kovarex.com/scorpio/pdf/2019m-Lychas_Mesobuthus.pdf.
Sorry your claim to local scorpion fame was so short-lived and down to a mis-identification by me.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.011544-35.297240
- Maps Piney Ridge Bluetts Block (402, 403, 12, 11)
- Places Stromlo, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 23 Nov 2021 04:12 PM Recorded on
- trevorpreston Recorded by
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Other Arthropods Scorpions (Scorpionidae) trevorpreston Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Lychas marmoreus Scientific name
- Little Marbled Scorpion Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 820.19m Recorded at altitude
- 63 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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