Sawfinger scorpion
Serradigitus gertschi
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsScorpions, ticks and friendsDeserts and dry places8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The sawfinger scorpion is a small scorpion from the dry lands of North America.
Fun fact: this one is not an insect. It is an arachnid with eight legs, a cousin of the spiders.
Lives in
From California to Texas and south into Mexico
What does it eat?
Like all scorpions, it is a hunter. It catches insects and other small animals.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Sawfinger scorpion about 2 km/h (1.2 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
There are two kinds of it, called subspecies.
2
It lives in the south west of the United States and in Mexico, including the long Baja California peninsula.
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Most asked questions about Sawfinger scorpion
?Where does the sawfinger scorpion live?
From California to Texas and south into Mexico.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Serradigitus gertschi
- Group
- Scorpions, ticks and friends
- Family
- Vaejovidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Scorpiones > Vaejovidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Serradigitus gertschi (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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