SPecies Name : Lychas Scutilus ( Formally named Lychas Scutatus?)
Family : Buthidae
LOcality : Southast Asia - Singapore, Malaysia.
Habitat: Between fallen logs, inbetween cracks or gaps in barks, stays near termite nest.
venom: unknown
No. of speciment studied: 5 adult speciments, 1 juv , and 20++ CB youngs till 4th instar so far.
(In Kovirak F's Lychas papers collection data do have other location other then the two ive mentioned.hence my data r base on my own data or other hobbist who had collected the speciment)

Simple Discriptions by Kovirak F's Lychas papers -

Kovarik, F. 1997. Revision of the genera Lychas and Hemilychas, with descriptions of six new species (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 61: 311-371.

"Total length 60-86.5 mm males; 40-65 mm females. Male differs from female by much longer, very thin metasoma and long telson. Sixth cutting edges on moveable and fixed fingers of pedipalps each with 3-5 external granules and one or no internal granule.
PTC: males = 16-20; females = 15-19."
Distribution Range: Andaman Islands, China (Shanghai, introduced?), Indonesia (Java, Sumatra), Keeling (Cocos) Islands, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand.
COloration with base color is yellow,to reddish brown.Tibia,in part of patella of the palps,telson and fifth and ocassionally 4th metasomal segment are dark brown.Mesosoma is spotted.Pectime count 15-20.

Temprement/Behaviour -
Not very pron to sting but rather chose to evacute. this species is VERY fast.in my experience faster the L.mucronatus... Female speciments tends to be more skittish while male tends to put up a small lil fight if needed.
AS a barkscorpion this spcies does not seems to use the verticle bark for moulting but rather they chose to moult on the ground. this has been proven by the first female juv speciment moulting to adult to the youngs that have since passed a few instar and 100 percent of them moulted on the floor and non on the bark.Ive also observed that they do some time dig a lil at the small corners of the tank, still tryig to find out why.
Cannabalisation among adults has not been observe but i did lost 2 speciments when i tried to have 5 2nd instar in communel setup only to have two being eaten by their siblings after they moulted to 3rd. they seem to be more verocious in the first two instar, once they hit 4th they don seem to be that aggresive hence the 3 remaining still together in communel.

Housing - (communelly and individually)
Food: they take mealworms, crix , roaches, hoppers. (these r those i have tried)
frequence of feeding: Once every 2 days for adults/juv and every other day for slings.
Temp: 26-30 degress day, 22-26 degrees night
humidity: 80-90% adult, +/-75% for slings below 3rd instar
Room: mutiple verticle hides.5 by 8 inches and 7 inches tall enclosures. with 1-1 1/2 inch of peat moss or soil. very moist for adult but only that with high ventilation for slings in lil 3 inch tall by 1 inch diameter viles r bottles does well for them.

some pics t view LLOLL

ok will do ... time to find some exo sand

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Added on April 10, 2009, 11:37 ami found out that my male royal jelly colour turn pale today .. i think it is going to molt ....

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Added on April 10, 2009, 11:39 ammy h.h hiding under a bark ...


some pics on my l.s