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Wind Scorpion
Copyright © 2008 Danny Mims

Wind Scorpion
rural, Denton County, Texas, USA
June 5, 2008
This one just ran out of gas.

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Contributed by Danny Mims on 5 June, 2008 - 5:09pm
Last updated 6 June, 2008 - 6:01pm

Wooow!
It's so tiny! I thought they'd be bigger (by an inch or two.)

Those enormous chelicera (the 'jaws') are on either side of the slit like mouth & are a hallmark of the wind scorpions.
APPARENTLY, while no solifugid is venomous, there is 1 species that DOES have poison glands. However, it does not appear to have any delivery mechanism for the toxins produced making the organs useless (unless such delivery systems do exist but in another form).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae
… Jonas Insinga, 5 June, 2008 - 8:26pm login or register to post comments

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