How long do deathstalkers live

In the middle of this region, we can see a dark vertical line that extends from the head to the beginning of the tail.

The tail has a dark part that contrasts with the yellow color of the rest of the body. This section is found just before the telson and is a way of identifying them, although it is not entirely reliable since other species also has this characteristic and cause confusion. However, it is a warning signal. They have a length ranging from 1. Two eyes are visible on the top of the head, while the other pairs are along both frontal sides of the head.

Its range of distribution includes North Africa and the Middle East. Its habitat includes a diversity of terrains in arid and semi-arid zones with very high temperatures. They use burrows abandoned by other animals and spaces under debris, but they also dare to get inside homes.

They feed on insects, some types of spiders, earthworms, centipedes and also other scorpions, even of the same species. The male scorpion must approach a female scorpion and grab her pedipalp chelae with his chelae fingers Warburg and Elias After the dancing has ceased, the female decides if this is the male that she wants to mate with.

If she agrees, the male will then eject a spermatophore Abushama When this occurs he arranges the female into a position that exposes her genital aperture over the spermatophore. Once this position has been established the female takes up the sperm in to her ovariuterus to start reproduction of the embryos. The ovariuterus consists of three longitudinal tubes connected by four short tubes and like stated earlier, is the place where the embryo will be produced and continue to grow until it is mature and ready for delivery Warburg After this reproductive process has finished, the male and female will separate Dejours Now it is time for the female to carry her young.

The gestation period for a female scorpion varies from to days with the average being somewhere around days. The female does not bury the eggs and wait for them to hatch. This means the young are delivered straight out of their mother, like how we deliver babies Warburg and Elias Their primary diet consists of insects such as beetles, flies, termites and crickets as well as other arachnids.

Predators include owls and bats, as well as other deathstalker scorpions and centipedes. Bats appear to have a resistance to their venom. Males and females perform a mating dance while the female decides whether to accept the advances of the male or not. This can only occur after the female has molted multiple times.

They produce an average of 62 babies after successful mating. Scorpions in general have been documented to live between 4 and 25 years, though no one knows the average life span of the deathstalker in the wild.

The deathstalker Leiurus quinquestriatus is a species of scorpion also known as Palestine yellow scorpion, the Israeli yellow scorpion, Omdurman scorpion, Naqab desert scorpion.