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Tityus sp ?
About 5cm without the tail, black without any markings. Strong glow under UV light (pictures #3 and #4). Nobody really knows why scorpions glow, but it seems that they convert UV light into a green/blue wavelength in their bodies. Green/blue, apparently is the colour which scorpions see best. There's some info about this here http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notroc...
Tropical rainforest in the Ecuadorian Amazon region.
I think this one might belong to the Tityus genus.
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Thanks, it's quite amazing how they glow under UV light!
Nice series especially with the blue light.