Insect Collection Set - 3 Scorpions Specimen

Insect Collection Set - 3 Scorpions

A set of 3 real Scorpions (Black Scorpion (Asian Forest Scorpion) - Heterometrus spinifer, Whip Scorpion - Typopeltis crucifer, Chinese Golden Scorpion (Mesobuthus martensii))  specimen encased in rectangular indestructible,transparent lucite block. Safe,authentic and completely unbreakable specimen put real Scorpions right at your fingertips!

Anyone can safely explore the Scorpions from every angle. It is clear enough for microscope observation.

Length of the scorpions' body is 3.0 cm, 3.0 cm and 3.3 cm (1.2, 1.2, 1.3 inch).

Size of the lucite block is 12.0x7.0x2.0 cm. Weight of the block is 200 g and 280 g with packing box.

It is an ideal learning aid for students and kids and also a very good collectible item for every body.

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Buyer pays US$7 for shipping and handling worldwide. Goods will be sent by airmail from Hong Kong and it may take 7-10 days to arrive.

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Black Scorpion (Asian Forest Scorpion)  Heterometrus spinifer

Origin: Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam
   Biotype: Tropical
   Adult Size: up to 16 cm
   Expectance of life: 8 cm

Food: insects (crickets, cockroaches, crickets), the scorpion may beforehand eat anything that moves, but the insects are adequate.

Description: This is a magnificent scorpion, which at adult size, can reach the size of 15cm, with a large body and imposing less than Pandinus Imperator. It is black with blue highlights, with large claws (leaner than those of P. Imperator). This species can be manipulated because it is calm and sociable, however, we must not lose sight of the fact that the bite is it can inflict very painful fever, vomiting and eye problems can occur passengers!

The scorpions need a normal cycle day / night, but they are crepuscular and often more active at night, when everything is calm and they can come out of hiding. The gestation length of the female is approximately 1 year, with 30-35 kids who may remain several months on the back of the mother. They are mature to 12-15 months.

The Heterometrus Spinifer Scorpions are common to most parts of SE Asia and Southern China.

Scorpions are a diverse group of arachnids and include 16 families, 159 genera with 1260 described species worldwide. The Heterometrus Spinifer is common to Thailand and China is one of a few species that is known to be edible. Scorpions are ancient animals and fossil records indicate that they were already in existence about 425 – 450 million years ago during the Silurian period and evolved from an amphibious ancestor. They occur in habitats ranging from forest to deserts but it is in the arid areas that they are most common and diverse.

Whip Scorpion - Typopeltis crucifer

This species can be found in China, Taiwan,  Japan and Korea

Diversity c. 15 genera, > 100 species

Families Geralinuridae, Thelyphonidae

A uropygid, commonly known as a whip scorpion, is an invertebrate animal belonging to the former order "Uropygi" in the class Arachnida, in the subphylum Chelicerata of the phylum Arthropoda. They are also known as the vinegarone or vinegaroon because when agitated they can spray a secretion of acetic acid.

The name "uropygid" means "tail rump", referring to the whip-like flagellum on the end of the pygidium, a small plate made up of the last three segments of the abdominal exoskeleton.

Whip scorpions range from 25 to 85 mm in length, with most species not longer than 30 mm; the largest species, of the genus Mastigoproctus, reaching 85 mm.

Like the related orders Schizomida, Amblypygi, and Solifugae, the uropygids use only six legs for walking, having modified their first two legs to serve as antennae-like sensory organs. Many species also have very large scorpion-like pedipalps (pincers). They have one pair of eyes at the front of the cephalothorax and three on each side of the head, a pattern also found in scorpions Whip scorpions have no poison glands, but they do have glands near the rear of their abdomen that can spray a combination of acetic acid and octanoic acid when they are bothered. The acetic acid gives this spray a vinegar-like smell, giving rise to the common name vinegaroon. Other species spray formic acid or chlorine.

Whip scorpions are carnivorous, nocturnal hunters feeding mostly on insects and millipedes, but sometimes on worms and slugs. Mastigoproctus sometimes preys on small vertebrates. The prey is crushed between special teeth on the inside of the trochanters (the second segment of the leg) of the front legs. They are valuable in controlling the population of roaches and crickets.

Males secrete a sperm sac, which is transferred to the female. Up to 35 eggs are laid in a burrow, within a mucous membrane that preserves moisture. Mothers stay with the eggs and do not eat. The white young that hatch from the eggs climb onto their mother's back and attach themselves there with special suckers. After the first molt they look like miniature whip scorpions, and leave the burrow; the mother dies soon after. The young grow slowly, going through three molts in about three years before reaching adulthood. They live for up to another four years.

Uropygids are found in tropical and subtropical areas worldwide. They are missing in Europe, Australia, and, except for an introduced species, in Africa. They usually dig underground burrows with their pedipalps, to which they transport their prey. They may also burrow under logs, rotting wood, rocks, and other natural debris. They enjoy humid, dark places and avoid the light.

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