Arizona tailless whip scorpion
The Arizona tailless whip scorpion is a flat, long-legged hunter with spiny grabbing arms at the front. It is not a real scorpion and has no tail. It hides in rocky cracks and old burrows in the dry hills of Arizona.
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Fun facts
Scientists only gave it its own name in 2024. Before that it was thought to be the same as a close cousin.
Its young have black grabbing arms and keep them black when they grow up. Its cousins have red arms when young.
The upper parts of its walking legs are black and the lower parts are red.
In one cave in Arizona it is one of the top hunters, living among insects, spiders, scorpions and even mice.
It likes to live alone and can move soil around to fix up its hiding place.
Most asked questions about Arizona tailless whip scorpion
?Is the Arizona tailless whip scorpion dangerous?
No. It has no venom and is harmless to people.
?Where does the Arizona tailless whip scorpion live?
Mostly in Arizona, in cracks on rocky hillsides, in old animal burrows and in caves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Paraphrynus tokdod
- Group
- Scorpions, ticks and friends
- Family
- Phrynidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Amblypygi > Phrynidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Paraphrynus tokdod (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 Ken-ichi Ueda. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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