Isometroides angusticaudus
Appearance
Isometroides angusticaudus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Scorpiones |
Family: | Buthidae |
Genus: | Isometroides |
Species: | I. angusticaudus
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Binomial name | |
Isometroides angusticaudus Keyserling, 1885[1]
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Isometroides angusticaudus, also known as the slender spider-hunting scorpion, is a species of scorpion in the Buthidae family. It is native to Australia, and was first described by German arachnologist Eugen von Keyserling in 1885.
Description
[edit]This species grows to about 30 mm in length, smaller than the otherwise very similar I. vescus, with which it was once synonymised.[2]
Distribution and habitat
[edit]The species has been recorded from South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria.[3]
Behaviour
[edit]The scorpions are specialised nocturnal predators of trapdoor spiders, and are often found in the vacant burrows of their prey.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Koch, Ludwig CC; Keyserling, E von (1885). Die Arachniden Australiens. Vol. 2. Nürnberg: Bauer und Raspe. pp. 1–51.
- ^ a b Mark A. Newton (2016). "Isometroides angusticaudus Keyserling, 1885". The Spiral Burrow – Australian Scorpions. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- ^ "Isometroides angusticaudus Keyserling, 1885". Atlas of Living Australia. ALA. Retrieved 31 January 2023.