Here's a fun case for you all - submitted for arthropod identification. Thoughts?
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8 comments:
? Pseudoscorpion?
Agree with Bruce - a pseudoscorpion or false scorpion/book scorpion - beneficial in the home to eat carpet beetles, book lice, ants, clothes moths.
It appears to be a pseudoscorpion.
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
I would go for a pseudoscorpion too.
Looks like a pseudoscorpion (Chelifer cancroides ?). Harmless to humans and even rather beneficial, as predator of several arthropods and insects.
Pseudoscorpion.
Perhaps Chelifer cancroides ?
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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