Black-edged bark scorpion
The black-edged bark scorpion is a big scorpion from Central America. It is usually yellow with black edges, but some are pale and some are almost blue-black. It hunts among the plants of the forest floor.
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Fun facts
It is active in the daytime and hides in cracks at night, which is the opposite of many scorpions.
Its name limbatus means black-edged, after its dark markings.
It sometimes moves into houses where it finds shelter and food.
It lives from the seashore up to 1,400 metres high in the mountains.
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?How big is the black-edged bark scorpion?
It can grow up to 11 centimetres long, which is big for a bark scorpion.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Centruroides limbatus
- Named by
- Pocock, 1898
- Group
- Scorpions, ticks and friends
- Family
- Buthidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Scorpiones > Buthidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Centruroides limbatus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Stevenj. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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