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| SeanCasey |
Recent blacklighting trip, eastern SoCalFound a good mix of scorps (and two mature male T's, which I'll include in this post for those interested). Some of the scorps I could not ID but made my best guess at. I could be completely off on some of them, and a couple were pretty obvious. Interestingly some of the S. mesaensis found had very dark coloration. We also found Vaejovis puritanus (but did not photograph (should have just for record keeping purposes). We only took and photographed a few scorps.I figured a couple of the scorps were interesting enough to post over here 
Vaejovis spinigerus 
Smeringurus mesaensis (dark color variant, 2i or 3i) ? 
Vaejovis vorhiesi, seems to match description here: http://science.marshall.edu/fet/Euscorpius/p2007_51.pdf Locality seems a bit west compared to any reference I have found online so far? 
Smeringurus mesaensis 
Vaejovis spinigerus 
Smeringurus vachoni (young, I am now fairly certian on ID based off type of hard packed gravel type soil and general match up to other Smeringurus traits) 
Smeringurus vachoni (subadult possibly, I am fairly certian on ID based off type of hard packed gravel type soil and general match up to other Smeringurus traits) 
Underside of previous scorp 
Underside of scorp following this picture 
Vaejovis vorhiesi, seems to match description here: http://science.marshall.edu/fet/Euscorpius/p2007_51.pdf Locality seems a bit west compared to any reference I have found online so far? 
The Tarantulas 
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| ftorres |
Hello All,
Sean, nice specimens. Looks like you had lots of fun. francisco |
| SeanCasey |
Received feedback from Kari McWest regarding my ID's.
Corrections: 1: Vaejovis (poss. puritanus or waeringi) 2: Smeringurus mesaensis (dark color variant, 2i or 3i) 3: Serradigitus sp. (poss. subtilimanus or harbisoni) 4: Smeringurus mesaensis 5: Vaejovis (poss. puritanus or waeringi) 6: Smeringurus vachoni 7: Smeringurus vachoni 8: Smeringurus vachoni 9: Serradigitus sp. (poss. subtilimanus or harbisoni) 10: Serradigitus sp. (poss. subtilimanus or harbisoni) |