Not EvaluatedCommon Yellow Scorpion
Buthus occitanus
50 countries104 parks
Species group · Arachnids
WAnimals has 7 species of scorpion, spread across 5 families (Bothriuridae, Buthidae, Diplocentridae, Scorpionidae, Vaejovidae).
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 7.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 115 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
The commonest scorpion in Iberia; its sting is painful but not deadly.
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Like all scorpions, it glows a fluorescent blue-green under ultraviolet light, a phenomenon whose function is still debated.
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The females give birth to live young that climb onto their back and ride there until the first moult.
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It has been listed in CITES Appendix II since 1995, because demand from the pet trade once meant hundreds of thousands of animals were exported a year.
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It is one of the few scorpions with any social life: mothers and young may share a burrow, and family groups have been seen hunting together.
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The females give birth to live white young that climb onto their back, where they stay until the first moult.
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Its scientific name literally means man-killer.
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It withstands doses of radiation that would be lethal to a mammal, a tolerance documented in several desert scorpions.
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