''Hottentotta conspersus'', the Sesriem Scorpion, is a species of

scorpion Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones. They have eight legs, and are easily recognized by a pair of grasping pincers and a narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back and always end ...

of the family

Buthidae The Buthidae are the largest family of scorpions, containing about 100 genera and 1339 species as of 2022. A few very large genera (''Ananteris'', ''Centruroides'', '' Compsobuthus'', or '' Tityus'') are known, but a high number of species-poor o ...

Description

''Hottentotta conspersus'' can reach a length of . Body is sparsely hirsute, with granulated

mesosoma The mesosoma is the middle part of the body, or tagma, of arthropods whose body is composed of three parts, the other two being the prosoma and the metasoma. It bears the legs, and, in the case of winged insects, the wings. In hymenopterans of t ...

and

carapace A carapace is a Dorsum (biology), dorsal (upper) section of the exoskeleton or shell in a number of animal groups, including arthropods, such as crustaceans and arachnids, as well as vertebrates, such as turtles and tortoises. In turtles and tor ...

and with seventh metasomal segment.

Telson The telson () is the posterior-most division of the body of an arthropod. Depending on the definition, the telson is either considered to be the final segment of the arthropod body, or an additional division that is not a true segment on accou ...

is granulated and very bulbous. Chelae are very narrow. Color varies from yellow to yellowish brown. Carapace and carinae may be black. Chelicerae are yellow without reticulation.František Kovaří
Revision of the Genus Hottentotta Birula, 1908, with Descriptions of Four New Species (Scorpiones, Buthidae)
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Distribution

This species occurs in

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and

Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...

References

*Thorell, 1876 : Études scorpiologiques. Atti della Societá Italiana di Scienze Naturali, vol. 19, p. 75–272. Buthidae Invertebrates of Angola Invertebrates of Namibia Scorpions described in 1876 {{scorpion-stub