Indian red scorpion
It hides by day and comes out to hunt at night.
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Fun facts
It is a night animal. Most of the time people meet it at night or early in the morning, when it crawls into a bed by mistake.
Its scientific name probably comes from the Tamil people of southern India, where it was first found.
In one study in India, it was by far the most common of six kinds of scorpions found.
Like all scorpions, it has eight legs and a pair of pincers at the front.
Most asked questions about Indian red scorpion
?Where does the Indian red scorpion live?
In most of India, and also in Nepal, eastern Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It often lives close to houses in the countryside.
?How big is the Indian red scorpion?
It is about 5 to 9 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hottentotta tamulus
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1798
- Group
- Scorpions, ticks and friends
- Family
- Buthidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Scorpiones > Buthidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Eastern Indian scorpion
Where the facts come from
- Hottentotta tamulus (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 Shantanu Kuveskar. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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