The giant desert hairy scorpion, Hadrurus arizonensis, is the largest scorpion species in North America, reaching 10 to 18 centimeters in length, with a tan to olive-green body, darker upper surfaces and yellowish pincers, legs and tail covered in sensory hairs that give the species its name. It is found across the Sonoran and Mojave deserts of western Arizona, southern California, southern Nevada and southwestern Utah, extending into Sonora and Baja California in Mexico, where it shelters by day in burrows, caves and rock crevices at elevations up to about 1,800 meters before emerging at night to forage.
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Source Wikidata: Giant Desert Hairy Scorpion
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Source Wikipedia: Hadrurus arizonensis
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1. Wikipedia: Hadrurus arizonensis
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Hadrurus arizonensis, the giant desert hairy scorpion, giant hairy scorpion, or Arizona Desert hairy scorpion is a large scorpion found in North America.
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Other species commonly encountered living sympatrically with this species are: Smeringurus mesaensis, Hoffmannius confusus, and Hoffmannius spinigerus . It is a carnivorous arachnid that primarily feeds on large insects, spiders,
- In Biome: Desert, Wikipedia intro states: "Hadrurus arizonensis, the giant desert hairy scorpion, giant hairy scorpion, or Arizona Desert hairy scorpion is a large scorpion found in"
- In Biome: Desert, Wikipedia intro: "Hadrurus arizonensis, the giant desert hairy scorpion, giant hairy scorpion, or Arizona Desert hairy scorpion is a large scorpion found in"
In Ecosystem: Mojave Desert, Habitat
In the United States, it is found in the western two thirds of Arizona, the Colorado Desert and Mojave Desert regions of southern California, southern Nevada, and extreme southwestern Utah.
In Ecosystem: Gulf of California, Habitat
In Mexico, the species' range flanks the Gulf of California in Sonora and Baja California.
View the Source2. Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Hadrurus arizonensis (Animal Diversity Web)
Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of ZoologyEconomic Importance for Humans: Positive Impacts
Positive Impacts pet trade pet trade
Economic Importance for Humans: Negative Impacts
Negative Impacts injures humans bites or stings household pest
Conservation Status: CITES
CITES No special status
View the Source 3. Wikipedia: Hadrurus arizonensis
4. GBIF (IUCN Red List category): GBIF IUCN Red List category for Hadrurus arizonensis
GBIF (IUCN Red List category)GBIF taxon key 6892807, category fieldQuote, GBIF taxon key 6892807, category field
"category": "NOT_EVALUATED"
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Wikidata: Giant Desert Hairy Scorpion
- Wikidata Q1566546, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Child Taxon Of: Scorpiones, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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