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Turkish deathstalker

Leiurus abdullahbayrami
Po mazzarPo ta mazzar senza tractament. Sch'el ta piztga, tschertga spert agid.
Scorpiuns PiztgadasMangia: Charn
Privel per umans: Fitg privlusEl po mazzar ina persuna che na survegn nagin tractament.

The Turkish deathstalker is a scorpion from the family Buthidae. Its venom is highly toxic to humans, but scientists also use scorpion venom in medical research. It lives in dry, rocky places and usually keeps away from people.1

Viva en
Turkey, in dry, semi-arid regions1
Asia
Pagina iniziala
It lives in rocky areas with short, scattered plants, in semi-arid regions with dry, chalky (calcareous) soils. It tends to keep away from human settlements.1
Lunghezza
9 cm (3,5 in)3
grondezza tipica d'in animal creschì
Sveltezza maximala
circa 1,8 km/h (1,1 mph)
Sin terra, stima approximativa
Tge mangia el?
Scorpions eat beetles, grasshoppers, locusts, centipedes, spiders and ants, and can eat small snakes, lizards or rodents if they can hold on long enough. They catch or crush their prey and inject venom to kill it. They are nocturnal and can go weeks or months between meals.1
Propi!Foto da Turkish deathstalker
Turkish deathstalker. Foto: Dalik Klavalav. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

Co renconuscher el

  • Brown front body section (cephalothorax), with a yellow head, legs and tail.1
  • The very last segment of the tail is brown instead of yellow.1
  • Its pincers and other body parts are yellowish, against a mostly black background on the front body and tail.1

Savens confundì cun: It was once considered the same species as the deathstalker (L. quinquestriatus), but was reclassified as a separate species in 2009 based on mitochondrial DNA analysis. Its tail segments are shorter than those of the deathstalker.1

Forza dal tissi

Piztgadas

Il tissi vegn or tras in aguigl.

Tge fa ses tissi?

Its venom comes from two venom glands and is mainly made of proteins. It stimulates voltage-gated sodium and potassium channels, which control the electrical signals in nerves and muscles. Symptoms can be severe: after a sting, pain can come in waves with seizures, and blisters can form at the site of the sting.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: Fitg privlusEl po mazzar ina persuna che na survegn nagin tractament.

Only a small portion of scorpions are harmful to humans, but this species' venom is very toxic and can cause severe symptoms from a single sting. The sting is much worse in children, and it may pose a serious health threat to infants because of their small body weight.1

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

Its venom is used for self-defence as well as for hunting.1

Sch'el piztga

  • Anyone who has been stung should have an early echocardiogram, which is a heart ultrasound, because the venom can affect the heart. In the case described, the patient was given sodium chloride (saline) and a local painkiller at hospital.1
  • Sfradenta la piztgada cun in pachet da glatsch e fa che la persuna resta immobila. Tschertga spert agid medicinal, surtut per uffants: tscherts scorpiuns èn mortals per uffants.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

  • Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
  • Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
  • Sch'in tal animal ta piztga: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

Turkish deathstalker circa 9 cm lung (3,5 in)In clip da palpiri circa 3 cm (1,2 in)In smartphone circa 15 cm (5,9 in)
uschè lung sco 3 bluccs da construcziun in suenter l'auterpudess currer 100 meters en 200 secundas (l'uman il pli svelt dovra 9,6)

Quant grond è Turkish deathstalker cumpareglià cun TAI?

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Quant svelt è el?

bun da savair

Fatgs

1

In one recorded case, a sting on the thumb of a 30-year-old man caused pain, reddening, seizures and blisters, and he was unable to move his arm up for a time.1

2

When a male wants to mate, he injects a small dose of venom into the female to calm her before they move together in a dance-like pattern.1

3

In tests on rats, the venom of this species had a greater effect than the venom of the Arabian fat-tailed scorpion (Androctonus crassicauda).1

4

Its venom is studied for treating nervous, immune, infection, cardiovascular and cancer (neoplastic) diseases.1

5

Birds, bats and mice prey on scorpions, which is why they are more active on moonless nights.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific
Leiurus abdullahbayrami
Gruppa
Scorpiuns
Famiglia
Buthidae2
Urden
Scorpiones
Continents
Asia
Poppins
The young, called scorplings, are born alive after 122 to 277 days, and a mother can give birth to 35 to 87 of them.1
Privel per umans
4 / 5: Fitg privlus3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

  1. Leiurus abdullahbayrami (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Leiurus abdullahbayrami (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
  3. Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.

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