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How to identify male and female scorpions?

2021-05-03 / 619 Read

Scorpion How to distinguish male and female, because scorpion individuals are not like dogs, they are easy to distinguish, they look almost the same and cannot be distinguished. Especially juvenile scorpions. So how to tell the sex of a scorpion?

How

Fluorescent Scorpion

Juvenile scorpions all look alike and are almost indistinguishable. Growing scorpions look closer to females. It is only when they are adults that they can easily tell the gender. There are many specific differences between male and female scorpions, but the most obvious differences are body shape and size.

Male scorpions are usually shorter and have a slender trunk, while females are slightly larger, with a larger and thicker trunk. Male scorpions have a relatively slender body

Other methods of distinction are briefly introduced as follows:

1. There are a pair of feather-like nodules on the abdomen of scorpions. The difference between males and females is as follows:

2. The number of teeth on the abdominal segment (more male scorpions; fewer female scorpions)

3. Ratio of body width to tail segment width (male scorpion less than 2; female scorpion greater than 2)

4. The length of the tentacles (the male scorpion is short, with odontoid processes; the female scorpion is long, without odontoid processes)

5. The hardness of the reproductive cover (the male scorpion is hard, the female scorpion is soft)

6. There will be a small tick on the male genital plate, but not in females