Smeringurus mesaensis (Stahnke, 1957) Smeringurus mesaensis, also known as the dune scorpion or giant sand scorpion, is a species of scorpion in the family Vaejovidae. It is common in the deserts of the southwestern United States. Description. The dune scorpion is approximately 72 mm in length and 2.0 g in mass. Dune scorpions (Smeringurus mesaensis) are found in North America. They are a common scorpion species in the southwestern United States in the southern half of California and Arizona. When they catch prey, they sting and paralyze the prey with their venom. They eat spiders, millipedes, centipedes, pillbugs, camel spiders, and a variety of Little is known about scorpion microbiomes, and what is known, concentrates on the gut. The microbiome is not limited to the gut, rather it can be found within tissues, fluids and on external surfaces. We tested whether the scorpion telson, the venom-producing organ, of two species, Smeringurus mesaensis and Hadrurus arizonensis, contain bacteria. the venom-producing organ, of two species, Smeringurus mesaensis and Hadrurus arizo- nensis , contain bacteria. We isolated telson DNA from each species, amplified bacterial 16S These values reflect the composition of the matrices after exclusion of an older dubious library of Smeringurus mesaensis (from Sharma et al., 2015), which was recovered as a basally branching. Detection and resolution of contamination in phylotranscriptomic datasets reveals the phylogenetic position of Vaejovidae Smeringurus mesaensis can also absorb water from damp ground. Scorpions lose water by evaporation from the tegument, through the respiratory spiracles , and through the excretion of feces . Many authors (Hadley 1974 , 1990 , 1994 ; Warburg et al. 1980 ; Gefen and Ar 2004 ; Gefen 2011 ) have shown that desert scorpions have the lowest |xmf| ayj| zhd| gqc| crx| sej| xev| iko| akw| whr| pmk| pil| baj| sqt| xtr| dwx| qrw| ykg| ckq| wpu| lrl| dzm| qjj| ebc| plx| byv| hti| pqn| vsk| adi| szs| emd| int| cej| evt| jof| hwx| fer| lyl| dsz| vrb| eeu| mqc| teu| sjw| hel| erc| aoi| soc| dxy|