Monday, May 24, 2021

Case of the Week 640

Here's a fun case for you all - submitted for arthropod identification. Thoughts?



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8 comments:

  1. BruceMay 24, 2021 at 10:43 PM

    ? Pseudoscorpion?

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  2. Dwight FerrisMay 24, 2021 at 10:47 PM

    Agree with Bruce - a pseudoscorpion or false scorpion/book scorpion - beneficial in the home to eat carpet beetles, book lice, ants, clothes moths.

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  3. dirusMay 24, 2021 at 10:47 PM

    It appears to be a pseudoscorpion.

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  4. AnonymousMay 25, 2021 at 6:43 AM

    What a scary looking bug, but the look is deceiving. Pseudo scorpions are rather inoffensive beneficial creatures.
    This specimen deserves to be featured in horror films.
    Florida Fan

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  5. Ana PMay 25, 2021 at 5:10 PM

    I would go for a pseudoscorpion too.

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  6. nemaMay 25, 2021 at 5:21 PM

    Looks like a pseudoscorpion (Chelifer cancroides ?). Harmless to humans and even rather beneficial, as predator of several arthropods and insects.

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  7. Pathologist Down UnderMay 26, 2021 at 3:05 AM

    Pseudoscorpion.
    Perhaps Chelifer cancroides ?

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  8. Kosta MumcuogluMay 26, 2021 at 3:45 AM

    Pseudo-scorpion because it has strong developed pedipals which resemble those of a scorpion, but what it is missing the elongated hind part of the abdomen, which in scorpions (in form of a tail) ends with a telson where the sting with the poisonous glands in located.

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