The Scorpion Files Newsblog

This blog will list news about all aspects of scorpion biology and important taxonomical updates from The scorpion Files. The Scorpion Files is a leading information source about scorpions, and has among others an updated list of all extant families, genera and species.(C) Jan Ove Rein and The Scorpion Files.

27 September, 2008

New german scorpion book for the hobbyist

I got a nice book in the mail last week: "Skorpione im Terrarium" by Martin Watz. As the name suggest, this is a book for the hobb...

05 September, 2008

Part IV of the major review of the scorpions of Iran has been published

Part IV of a major review of the scorpions of Iran has been published in issue 74 of the journal Euscorpius . The paper list 11 species (eig...

27 August, 2008

Scorpions as a health problem

Scorpions are infamous because of their venomous sting, but as with many other venomous animals, their reputation is exaggerated. Chippaux ...

23 August, 2008

A new species in the genus Vachoniochactas from Colombia

A new species in the little known chactid genera Vachoniochactas has been described from Colombia, bringing the number of species in the gen...

15 August, 2008

How to keep Australian scorpions

Mark Newton, the editor of the great Aussi scorpion site, The spiral Burrow , has published a book about Aussi scorpions and their husbander...

07 August, 2008

Are female scorpions better desert survivors than males?

It is well known that desert scorpions are among the best adapted arthropods inhabiting the warm and dry deserts of the world. Scorpions exh...

05 August, 2008

Taxonomical updates

Three new papers has recently been published with new species and taxonomical updates: Teruel & Roncallo (2008): Ananteris hasshy Terue...

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