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Pseudoscorpion (female with eggs)

Description:

Order Pseudoscorpiones. Pseudoscorpions are small arachnids with a flat, pear-shaped body and pincers that resemble those of scorpions.

Habitat:

They range worldwide, even in temperate to cold regions like Northern Ontario and above timberline in Wyoming's Rocky Mountains in the United States and the Jenolan Caves of Australia, but have their most dense and diverse populations in the tropics and subtropics. Species have been found under tree bark, in leaf and pine litter, in soil, in tree hollows, under stones, in caves, at the seashore in the intertidal zone, and within fractured rocks.

Notes:

This animal was incredibly tiny and was carrying eggs.

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4 Comments

kerrydonovanbrown
kerrydonovanbrown 12 years ago

O_O its abdomen looks like a sheet folded over the eggs.

Aaron_G
Aaron_G 12 years ago

Thank you. There are MANY eggs under there. I have a crummy photo of the underside (most of it, anyway), so I guess I should post it to show more of the eggs.

kerrydonovanbrown
kerrydonovanbrown 12 years ago

Fantastic! I wonder, are they six individual eggs, or egg sacks?

Ignacio Gamboa
Ignacio Gamboa 12 years ago

Interesting

Aaron_G
Spotted by
Aaron_G

Nogales, Arizona, USA

Spotted on Aug 2, 2007
Submitted on Jan 21, 2012

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