Vinegaroon pics

[Nazgul]

Hi,

Minbosius manilanus from the Phillippines

Regards
Alex

[Nikos]

Excellent Alex!!!!!

[Steven]

:drool: :drool: :drool:




BTW:
are these recent ? or from the last sending ? ;)

[Nazgul]

I´m sure you´ll be posting some pics soon as well, Nikos :D.

They are from the last sending, Steven.

Regards
Alex

[Steven]

just curious,.. did you use the paper of JM Rowland and JAL Cooke to ID them as Minbosius manilanus ?

how big is there bodylenght and wipspan ?


very nice creatures :D

[Nazgul]

Hi Steven,

I guess the Rowland paper is the only source providing a key (at least the only one I found), so yes, I used that one. It goes down to genus level only but Minbosius is a monotypic genus (luckily ;) ).

Bodylength is about 8 cm. The length of the whip is about 5 cm with the specimen which got the longest one. All others should have lost parts of their whips.

Regards
Alex

[Steven]

Just got mine in :cool:

damn these are 10x faster and agressive :eek:
then those slow-moving Americans vinegaroons !

They got me by surprise with their speed :wicked:
I also noticed that their "acid-smell" is completly different then Mastigoproctus :?

[Joe1968]

Im not sure if its just the camera but thats a really nice blue tint to it, very stunning!!! :worship: :clap:

[Empi]

Man those thing are strange looking! I like them though. Very cool!

[Nazgul]

Hi,

it´s not the camera but the artificial light source I was using. They are more to the blackish in natural.

Regards
Alex

[Jaygnar]

Nice pics, exquisite animals. I really like the big whips. :clap:

[BLS Blondi]

That is a nice looking specimen

[Steven]

other lightsources can give completly different results ;)

http://www.scolopendra.be/digipix/vine1.jpg
http://www.scolopendra.be/digipix/vine2.jpg

[Nazgul]

Hi,

nice pics, Steven. They aren´t that red either though :D. I guess your light source is more to the red spectrum and mine more to the blue.

Regards
Alex

[Androctonus_bic]

Why I always I see bugs of the greats of this forum I what it?

Nice bug. I have never seen one of it.

[cacoseraph]

Just got mine in :cool:

damn these are 10x faster and agressive :eek:
then those slow-moving Americans vinegaroons !

They got me by surprise with their speed :wicked:
I also noticed that their "acid-smell" is completly different then Mastigoproctus :?

i've heard there is acetic acid (vinegar) in North American spray but that some of the tropicals can do hydrocholoric or something... i'll have to try and find that reference again :)

[Steven]

Hi,

nice pics, Steven. They aren´t that red either though :D. I guess your light source is more to the red spectrum and mine more to the blue.

Regards
Alex

hehehe yes you're right,... let us say they are in real life, something inbetween our pictures ;)

@cacoseraph
please do search for that reference as it was the first thing i've noticed when i got sprayed by an azian vinegaroon,... different smell then an American vin. :rolleyes: :D

[Randolph XX()]

Hey Steven
is yours from Taiwan? i think i might have seen some smaller reddish specimets from Orchid Island like yours b4

[Nazgul]

Hi,

Steven´s are coming from the same source than mine, the Phillippines. The acid of this species does smell a lot like cider vinegar. I´ve never kept any other vinegaroon species, I´m usually into scorpions only, therefor I can´t compare. But I´d be really interested in the citation as well.

Regards
Alex

[Nikos]

Nice pics Steven!! Can't wait......

[Nikos]

a couple photos of my specimens too.

please ignore the spellling error (double "l") in manilanus.

http://nikos.scorpion-realm.co.uk/photographs/Minbosius%20Manillanus2.jpg

http://nikos.scorpion-realm.co.uk/photographs/Minbosius%20Manillanus1.jpg

[Nikos]

and one photo of a Mastigoproctus Giganteus

http://nikos.scorpion-realm.co.uk/photographs/mastigoproctus%20giganteus1.jpg