Monday, May 24, 2021

Case of the Week 640

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



8 comments:

Bruce said...

? Pseudoscorpion?

Dwight Ferris said...

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

dirus said...

It appears to be a pseudoscorpion.

Anonymous said...

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

Ana P said...

I would go for a pseudoscorpion too.

nema said...

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

Pathologist Down Under said...

Pseudoscorpion.
Perhaps Chelifer cancroides ?

Kosta Mumcuoglu said...

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.