Superstition Mountains scorpion
Superstitionia donensis
Name means: “from the Superstition Mountains”
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsScorpions, ticks and friendsDeserts and dry places8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The Superstition Mountains scorpion is a small desert scorpion from the south-western United States and Mexico. It was first found in 1940 in the Superstition Mountains in Arizona. It is so special that it has a whole scorpion family all to itself.
Fun fact: this one is not an insect. It is an arachnid with eight legs, a cousin of the spiders.
Lives in
The south-western United States and north-western Mexico, in mountains and deserts
What does it eat?
Like other scorpions, it catches insects and other small animals.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Superstition Mountains 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
It is the only species in its whole family. No other scorpion is that closely related to it.
2
It likes to hide under rocks or near plants in the desert, or among rocks in the mountains.
3
Its closest cousins are blind scorpions that live in caves in Mexico.
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Most asked questions about Superstition Mountains scorpion
?Where does the Superstition Mountains scorpion live?
In Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and California, and in north-western Mexico.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Superstitionia donensis
- Named by
- Stahnke, 1940
- Group
- Scorpions, ticks and friends
- Family
- Superstitioniidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Scorpiones > Superstitioniidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Superstitionia (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 Don Loarie. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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