Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Hentz's Striped Scorpion

Centruroides hentzi

Description:

The Hentz's Striped Scorpion observed was mostly pale sandy brown in color except for on it's abdomen. On the dorsal side, it was pale black and segmented and on the ventral side it was a lighter white color. The Hentz Striped Scorpion also has a multitude of orange-brown spots on its backside and six segmented walking legs. The scorpion overall was small yet carried a look that is quite intimidating.

Habitat:

The Hentz's Striped Scorpion can generally be found in fields and woodland edges.

1 Species ID Suggestions

JeffreyDuby
JeffreyDuby 10 years ago
Hentz Striped Scorpion
Centruroides hentzi Scorpions in Florida


Sign in to suggest organism ID

7 Comments

JenniferRoge
JenniferRoge 10 years ago

Thank you so much of joining!

RickBohler
RickBohler 10 years ago

ha ha ha, I was one of them ;)

JeffreyDuby
JeffreyDuby 10 years ago

No problem a lot of people don't even know there is another scorpion species other than the Florida bark in Florida.

RickBohler
RickBohler 10 years ago

Thanks for the correction Jeffrey :)

RickBohler
RickBohler 10 years ago

Done...thanks for the invite

JenniferRoge
JenniferRoge 10 years ago

Please join this new mission Scorpions of Florida.http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/22371181

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Wow...fantastic series...

RickBohler
Spotted by
RickBohler

Jacksonville, Florida, USA

Spotted on Sep 10, 2011
Submitted on Dec 4, 2011

Related Spottings

Brown Bark Scorpion Escorpión, alacrán Arizona bark scorpion Striped bark scorpion

Nearby Spottings

Blue Tailed Skink (Five-lined skink) Great Blue Heron Boxelder bug Fruit Fly
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team