Jones's scorpion
Jones's scorpion is a chunky scorpion from southern Africa with short, stout pincers. Some are all black and some are brown with yellow legs. It is a great digger and lives in a burrow under a tuft of grass.
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Fun facts
It digs a burrow that goes straight down, about 18 centimetres deep, usually at the foot of a grass tuft.
Digging its burrow takes two or three nights. It loosens the soil with its pincers and then uses them as spades.
In some places there can be up to four burrows in one square metre.
Hornbills, porcupines, shrews and big centipedes all hunt it.
Its tail alone is about 3.5 centimetres long.
Most asked questions about Jones's scorpion
?How big is Jones's scorpion?
It can grow to about 9 centimetres long.
?What does Jones's scorpion eat?
Mostly dung beetles that tumble into its burrow.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cheloctonus jonesii
- Named by
- Pocock, 1892
- Group
- Scorpions, ticks and friends
- Family
- Hormuridae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Scorpiones > Hormuridae
- Lives on
- Africa
Where the facts come from
- Cheloctonus jonesii (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 Bernard DUPONT. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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