Flat rock scorpion
The flat rock scorpion is a very long scorpion with a black body and pale yellow legs. It is as flat as a pancake, so it can slide into narrow cracks between rocks.
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Fun facts
It used to be thought the longest scorpion in the world, at up to 20 centimetres.
It often spends its whole life going up and down the same pile of rocks.
It cannot travel far across sand, because its curved claws are made for gripping rock.
It uses its tail like a broom to sweep away dirt when it digs a new hiding place.
Most asked questions about Flat rock scorpion
?How big is the flat rock scorpion?
It can be up to 20 centimetres long, one of the longest scorpions.
?Why is the flat rock scorpion so flat?
Being flat lets it squeeze into thin cracks in rocks to hide.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hadogenes troglodytes
- Group
- Scorpions, ticks and friends
- Family
- Hormuridae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Scorpiones > Hormuridae
- Lives on
- Africa
Where the facts come from
- Hadogenes troglodytes (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Maans Booysen, Birding Weto. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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