Naqab desert scorpion: Difference between revisions

The '''deathstalker''' (''Leiurus quinquestriatus'')  is a [[species]] of [[scorpion]], a member of the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Buthidae]]. It is also known as the '''Palestine yellow scorpion''',<ref name="Animals">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aEtrAAAAMAAJ&q=%22palestine+yellow+scorpion%22|title=Venom diseases|last=Minton|first=Sherman A.|publisher=Thomas|year=1974|isbn=978-0-398-03051-3|pages=235|access-date=April 30, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Biology">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FdosAAAAMAAJ&q=%22palestine+yellow+scorpion%22|title=Entomology abstracts, Volume 24, Issues 10-12|last=The Staff of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts|publisher=Cambridge Scientific Abstracts|year=1993|access-date=April 30, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Ethnozoology">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fr2rANLrPmoC&q=palestine+yellow+scorpion&pg=PA360|title=The Continuum encyclopedia of animal symbolism in art|last=Werness|first=Hope B.|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group|year=2004|isbn=978-0-8264-1525-7|pages=476|access-date=April 30, 2010}}</ref><ref name="World records">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSyswNFqTycC&q=%22palestine+yellow+scorpion%22|title=The Guinness Book of World Records 1998|last=Young|first=Mark|publisher=Bantam Books|year=1998|isbn=978-0-553-57895-9|pages=768|access-date=April 30, 2010}}</ref> '''Omdurman scorpion''', '''Naqab desert scorpion''' and by many other colloquial names, which generally originate from the commercial captive trade of the animal. To eliminate confusion, especially important with potentially dangerous species, the [[scientific name]] is normally used to refer to them. The name ''Leiurus quinquestriatus'' roughly translates into English as "five-striped smooth-tail".<ref> Respectively from Greek ''leios'' "smooth" and ''oura'' "tail", and Latin ''quinque'' "five" and ''striatus'' "striated, grooved, fluted".</ref> In 2014, the subspecies ''L. q. hebraeus'' was separated from it and elevated to its own species ''[[Leiurus hebraeus]]''.<ref>Lowe G, Yagmur EA, Kovarik F. A Review of the Genus Leiurus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) with Description of Four New Species from the Arabian Peninsula. Euscorpius. 2014 (191):1-129. [http://www.science.marshall.edu/fet/euscorpius/p2014_191.pdf PDF].</ref> Other species of the [[genus]] ''[[Leiurus]]'' are also often referred to as "deathstalkers". ''Leiurus quinquestriatus'' is yellow, and {{convert|30|-|77|mm}} long, with an average of {{convert|58|mm|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Amr|first1=Zuhair S.|last2=El-Oran|first2=Ratib|year=1994|title=Systematics and distribution of scorpions (Arachnida, Scorpionida) in Jordan|journal=Italian Journal of Zoology|volume=61|issue=2|pages=185–190|doi=10.1080/11250009409355881|doi-access=free}}</ref>