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- Title
Centruroides thorellii (Scorpiones: Buthidae): traveling from Guatemala to England without a passport.
- Authors
Trujillo, Rony E.; de Armas, Luis F.; Mansfield, Darren
- Abstract
We recorded a pregnant female of the Central American bark stripped scorpion Centruroides thorellii (Kraepelin, 1891), which arrived to England as a stowaway in the bag of a woman that previously visited the Departments of Sacatepéquez, Sololá and San Marcos, Guatemala. On January 2, this C. thorellii female had a litter of three offspring and three infertile eggs, but she has eaten them, probably as consequence of the stress caused by the hard travel and the environmental changes. We provide a map with the geographical distribution of this species and photos of the female detected in a British train.
- Subjects
GUATEMALA; CENTRUROIDES; BUTHIDAE; SPECIES distribution; PREGNANT women; PASSPORTS; TRAVEL
- Publication
Euscorpius, 2017, Issue 239, p1
- ISSN
1536-9307
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18590/euscorpius.2017.vol2017.iss239.1