1. Israeli Golden Scorpion
The Israeli golden scorpion, also known as the Israeli killer scorpion or the Middle Eastern golden scorpion, inhabits the dry desert areas of the Middle East and North Africa, grows slowly, has a body length of about 5 to 8 centimeters, has a yellow-brown, dark brown, black body color, a relatively short tail, and likes to eat small crickets, spiders, and small and medium-sized insects. The Israeli golden scorpion is slender and streamlined, but has a pair of large, powerful claws. This beautiful little golden yellow animal is the world's first poisonous scorpion, known for its ferocious habits and highly poisonous tail spines. Its venom is actually a mixture of multiple neurotoxins. Although its venom is usually not measured enough to kill an adult, it is still deadly for children and the elderly, ranking fifth in the World's Top Ten Poison Kings.
2. Turkish black fat-tailed scorpion
The Turkish black fat-tailed scorpion, distributed in some countries in the Middle East, is extremely toxic and is the 7th poisonous scorpion in the world! It is also the scorpion with the largest number of deaths in the world, because it is not only extremely toxic, but also has a large amount of venom injection. The huge and exaggerated tail, the glossy black body surface, and the powerful claw limbs give it a suffocating aesthetic that other scorpions do not have. There are two colors, black brown and red brown.
3. Yellow fat tail scorpion
It is widely distributed in Algeria, Chad, Libya, Egypt, Mauritania, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia in North Africa, to Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan and other places in West Asia. Named after its large, stout tail, Yellow Fat-tailed Scorpion is a highly toxic scorpion that is ferocious in nature, will actively attack and kill many targets near it, and the high amount of venom also makes it have a record of killing. Latin scientific name: Androctonus australis, abbreviated as AA.
4. North African black fat-tailed scorpion
The black fat-tailed scorpion in North Africa is mainly distributed in Morocco and North Africa, and its diet likes to eat small crickets, spiders, and small and medium-sized insects. Native to the dry deserts of North Africa, the adult body length is 10 to 13 cm, fierce and nervous, and is easily affected by external influences and dances with teeth and claws. When harassed, its actions will be faster and more vicious than usual, it is a relatively common breed, its toxicity is powerful, it is a very violent neurotoxin, known as the world's third poisonous scorpion, but its danger is far more dangerous than the world's first poisonous scorpion, the Israeli golden scorpion, because it is not only poisonous but also has a very amazing amount of poison injection!
5. South American desert wood scorpion
Distributed in the desert areas of Chile and Peru in South America, it is medium in size, with a large trunk, blackened pincers, fierce temperament, and good at preying on insects. This scorpion eats cockroaches and other insects, lives in rocks and bark, and the toxicity and cardiotoxicity of its venom cause the release of catecholamines. Effects from the stings locally, including pain, redness, itchiness, swelling. Venom can produce heart effects such as arrhythmias, pulmonary edema, tachycardia or bradycardia, and high or low blood pressure. Other possible symptoms include nausea, vomiting, sweating, diarrhea, convulsions, shock, coma, or, rarely, death.
6. Libyan Golden Scorpion
Geographical distribution Africa (Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, Egypt...) Etc.) Middle East (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.), body length 6 ~ 9cm, eat small crickets, spiders, small and medium-sized insects, and even eat some animals or large insect carcasses. The habitat is dry and ventilated, and they prefer to hide in more water nests, rocks or drill holes due to the hot environment. Fierce, fast, and most likely to flee when encountering enemies, it is less willing to attack. Extremely toxic LD 50 values of 0.75 mg/kg. The growth rate is slow, and it can grow to adults in about 2 to 3 years. After research, it was found that the venom of the Libyan golden scorpion contains a natural anti-rheumatic paralysis ingredient, which can quickly crack the toxin group formed by the "five poisons" such as wind poison, cold poison, wet poison, heat poison and stasis poison that invade the human body.
7. Mediterranean yellow scorpion
The Mediterranean yellow scorpion is about 5-6 cm long and widely distributed, and it can be found in the steppes and deserts along the Mediterranean region such as Albania, Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey. The Mediterranean yellow scorpion distributed in Africa may be fatal, but the Mediterranean yellow scorpion in Europe is less toxic than in Africa and has a more docile personality.
8. Mexican statue wooden scorpion
The Mexican statue of the wooden scorpion (scientific name: Centruvoides exilicauda) is a light brown scorpion with a length of 7 cm, resembling a lute, with a highly hard skin on its entire body surface and obvious segmentation of the body. The cephalothorax, consisting of six segments, is trapezoidal and covered with translucent hard armor on the back, and the Mexican statue of the wooden scorpion lives in the Sonora Desert. Its spines have been recognized as deadly, and although there are more than 30 species of scorpions found in the Americas, only the Mexican statue wood scorpion sting is considered a true threat to life. Its elongated pincers and tail distinguish it from other species. Hermaphroditic, slightly different in appearance. It likes to eat small crickets, cockroaches, spiders and other small and medium-sized insects. It is found in the United States and Mexico.
9. Tanzanian yellow crocodile back scorpion
This type is characterized by its "tail" being the strongest and coarsest of all crocodile-backed Hottentotta genera. Unlike the well-known Hottentotta Hottentotta, the Tanzanian yellow crocodileback scorpion is not a "parthenogenesis" species. The Tanzanian yellow crocodile-backed scorpion has a fierce temperament and is as susceptible to outside influence as other crocodile-backed scorpions. Males and females are 6L adults, can not live in groups, when harassed, their actions will be faster and more vicious than usual, and toxic, the desire to predation is very strong, dare to attack food larger than their own.
10. Fluorescent scorpion
Fluorescent scorpion belongs to the desert scorpion species, the toxicity is high, scorpion toxicity ranks ninth, is a high temperature scorpion species, the suitable living temperature is 32-35 degrees Celsius. Moving fast, fluorescent scorpions are very timid and prone to nervousness. Likes to dig holes and hibernates at around 15 degrees Celsius.