DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.18590/euscorpius.2017.vol2017.iss239.1
Abstract
We recorded a pregnant female of the Central American bark stripped scorpion Centruroides thorellii (Kraepelin, 1891), which arrived to England as a stowaway in the bag of a woman that previously visited the Departments of Sacatepéquez, Sololá and San Marcos, Guatemala. On January 2, this C. thorellii female had a litter of three off-spring and three infertile eggs, but she has eaten them, probably as consequence of the stress caused by the hard travel and the environmental changes. We provide a map with the geographical distribution of this species and photos of the female detected in a British train.
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Recommended Citation
Trujillo, R. E., de Armas, L. F., & Mansfield, D. 2017 . Centruroides thorellii (Scorpiones: Buthidae): traveling from Guatemala to England without a passport. Euscorpius, No. 239: 1-4.
