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Striped Lesser-thicktail Scorpion Uroplectes lineatus. Photo: John Visser (C). Used with permission. As with many other animals, scorpions also shows…

I got the sad news this morning from multiple postings on Facebook that David (Dave) Gaban is no longer among us. Most, if not all of us in the…

There are a lot of scorpions in museum- and university collections around the world. Many of these were collected and identified decades and even…

Rolando Teruel has just published an article with new information on the rare, endemic scorpion Cryptoiclus rodriguezi Teruel & Kovarik, 2012…

The recently described species Euscorpius lesbiacus Tropea et al., 2020 (Euscorpiidae) from the Greek island Lesvos has now been discovered in…

A few weeks ago a reported about a a systematic revision of the Buthacus Birula, 1908 (Buthidae) species of the Levant (the Middle East including…

Some genera are monotypic and very rare. Somalibuthus Kovarik, 1998 (Buthidae) is an example of this and no specimens have been found since the…

The Sand Scorpions, also known as the genus Buthacus Birula, 1908 (Buthidae) are widespread in in the sandy deserts of the Palearctic, from West…

Sexual stings during courtship is probably one of the most fascinating behavior in scorpions. This has been documented in many species, but so far…

Wilson Lourenco and Hisham El-Hennawy have recetly published the discovery of a second species of Leiurus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Buthidae) from…