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Post by lucanidae25 on Sept 9, 2013 5:43:34 GMT -8
Can anyone tell me if this Palamnaeus fulvipes 180mm from Malaysia is the world record size for this sp? I've never seen another one bigger than this one.   |
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Post by lepidofrance on Sept 9, 2013 7:40:15 GMT -8
Have you found in your bed?
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Post by lucanidae25 on Sept 9, 2013 7:52:31 GMT -8
I sleep next to it and wake up with it next to me every morning.   |
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Post by Adam Cotton on Sept 9, 2013 10:40:45 GMT -8
Wow, that's at least 1.5 times the size of the ones I get in my garden here. I saw a big one only a couple of days ago, but nothing like the size of yours.
Adam.
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Post by lucanidae25 on Sept 9, 2013 14:12:51 GMT -8
I think the one in your garden is Heterometrus laoticus, not a big sp with their over all body size and the only big one found in Thailand.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Sept 10, 2013 7:22:25 GMT -8
Ah, thank you for the ID. I had always known it as Palamnaeus fulvipes, but not being a scorpion man I wasn't sure if the differences I had noticed between our large scorpion and the Malaysian one were interspecific or intraspecific.
Back in the early 80's I remember taking a sack of them on a provincial bus, and some of them crawling out through a hole and all over the floor of the bus. The human occupants of the bus were generally understanding, although a few people were afraid and others wanted to eat them.
This scorpion is actually pretty harmless, the sting is not even equivalent to a wasp, and they rely more on their fearsome appearance than actual danger. It is quite easy to pick them up by grasping the sting between thumb and forefinger. I strongly recommend not trying it with the small brown scorpions we have here. Although they are not deadly either, they are much more viscious and have a painful sting.
Adam.
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Post by lucanidae25 on Sept 10, 2013 8:28:38 GMT -8
Yes both Palamnaeus fulvipes and Heterometrus laoticus can be very common but Palamnaeus fulvipes only found in Malaysia and Heterometrus laoticus has a much larger distributions right across from Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam to Guangxi China. Lots of Asian countries deep fired them and eat them as food. I tried them but personially didn't really like them.  This is the 1st time I've seen one this big, almost as big as Pandinus imperator 200mm, this would have to be the 2nd biggest scorpion sp in the world but I've never seen a Pandinus imperator 200mm any where.  Heterometrus cyaneus from E. Java is the 3rd biggest in the world. My biggest one is only 150mm. |
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