Marbled scorpion
Lychas variatus
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsScorpions, ticks and friendsForests and woods8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The marbled scorpion is a small scorpion from Australia and New Guinea. Its body is yellowish brown with lighter brown patches, like a marble stone.
Fun fact: this one is not an insect. It is an arachnid with eight legs, a cousin of the spiders.
Lives in
Northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea, under rocks, bark and fallen leaves
Length
4 cm (1.6 in)
What does it eat?
It is a hunter that catches small creatures without a backbone, such as insects and spiders.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 7 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 2.2 seconds
How big is Marbled scorpion compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Marbled scorpion about 1.6 km/h (0.99 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its tail is about half as long as its whole body.
2
It likes warm, damp places and hides under rocks, pieces of bark and dead leaves.
3
Sometimes it wanders into people's houses.
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Most asked questions about Marbled scorpion
?How big is a marbled scorpion?
It grows to about 4 centimetres long, and half of that is its tail.
?Where does the marbled scorpion live?
In northern and eastern Australia and in New Guinea, hiding under rocks, bark and leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lychas variatus
- Named by
- Thorell, 1877
- Group
- Scorpions, ticks and friends
- Family
- Buthidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Scorpiones > Buthidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Splendid marbled scorpion
Where the facts come from
- Lychas variatus (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 Peter T. Rühr. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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