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Brazilian yellow scorpion

Tityus serrulatus

Malunga negama: Its common name comes from its pale-yellow legs and pedipalps (the front limbs near the mouth).1

SinokubulalaSinokukubulala ukuba awunyangwanga. Ukuba siyakuhlaba, fumana uncedo ngokukhawuleza.

Oonomadudwane

UkuhlabaSitya: Izinambuzane

Ingozi ebantwini: Siyingozi kakhuluSinokubulala umntu ongafumani nyango.

The Brazilian yellow scorpion is a small scorpion that lives in Brazil, often in towns and cities. Its venom is extremely toxic, and it is the most dangerous scorpion in South America.1

Sihlala

Brazil, widespread across most of the country, including São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Bahia1

uMzantsi Melika

Ekhaya

It is suited to urban life, living in sewers and trash heaps. Most stings happen in towns, inside or near homes.1

Ubude

5 cm ukuya ku-7 cm (2 in ukuya ku-2,8 in)1

Esona santya siphezulu

malunga ne-1,4 km/h (0,87 mph)

Emhlabeni, uqikelelo nje

Sitya ntoni?

It eats insects, especially cockroaches. Its venom-injecting barb can immobilise prey.1

Ifoto ka-Brazilian yellow scorpion — Brazilian yellow scorpion. Ifoto: José Roberto Peruca. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Indlela yokusiqaphela

Adults are usually 5 to 7 cm long.1
Legs and pedipalps are pale yellow, while the body and the tip of the tail are a darker yellowish brown.1
The tail is bulbous and segmented, with prominent ridges and serrations, and is often carried curved forward over the back.1
The tail ends in a venom-injecting barb.1

Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba

Ukuhlaba

Ityhefu iphuma ngenaliti yokuhlaba.

Ityhefu yaso yokuluma okanye yokuhlaba yenza ntoni?

Its venom contains an excitatory neurotoxin, which attacks the nerves that control involuntary body functions and releases adrenaline and related chemicals. Mild cases cause mainly localised pain, while more serious cases can bring fever, sweating, tremors, vomiting, agitation, a fast heartbeat and inflammation of the pancreas. Deaths can occur within 1 to 6 hours, or 12 to 14 hours, depending on age, health and the amount of venom injected.1

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: Siyingozi kakhuluSinokubulala umntu ongafumani nyango.

It is responsible for more medically significant accidents than any other scorpion in Brazil, and most of the country's fatal scorpion cases. Mortality rates are 1.0 to 2.0% among children and elderly people. In a nationwide study from 2000 to 2012, Brazil recorded 482,616 scorpion accidents and 728 deaths, and this species was believed to cause most of those deaths.1

Senza ntoni xa soyika?

It uses its tail barb to deliver defensive strikes.1

Ukuba siyahlaba

Pholisa indawo ehlatyiweyo ngepakethi yomkhenkce kwaye ugcine umntu engashukumi. Fumana uncedo lwezonyango ngokukhawuleza, ingakumbi kubantwana: abanye oonomadudwane bayabulala kubantwana.

Soloko utsalela inombolo kaxakeka kuqala (112, 000, 911). Esi sisikhokelo soncedo lokuqala ngokubanzi, asilocebiso lwezonyango. Iziseko zoncedo lokuqala

Hlala ukhuselekile

Ungaze uchukumise, ubambe okanye uqhule isilwanyana sasendle, nokuba sincinci, kwaye nokuba sibonakala silele okanye sifile.
Sinike indawo. Ukuba udibana naso, hlala uzolile, buyela umva kancinci kwaye usiyeke sihambe ngendlela yaso.
Ukuba siyakuhlaba: hlala uzolile, musa ukushukuma, tsalela inombolo kaxakeka (112, 000, 911) okanye uye esibhedlele ngokukhawuleza. Khumbula ukuba sasikhangeleka njani, ifoto iyanceda.

Asikuzingeli. Sisebenzisa ityhefu yaso ukubamba ukutya okanye ukuzikhusela, kwaye singakhetha ukuzimela. Okungakumbi malunga nokuhlala ukhuselekile

Phi emhlabeni?

IAfrika IAsiya IYurophu uMntla Melika uMzantsi Melika IOstreliya neOceania

Sikhulu kangakanani?

Side kangakanani?

ubude obulingana neebhloko zokudlala zokwakha eziyi-2 zilandelelanasingagqiba iimitha ezili-100 ngemizuzwana eyi-260 (owona mntu ukhawulezayo udinga i-9,6)

U-Brazilian yellow scorpion mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?

Zizibalo nje kwibhrawuza yakho. Akukho nto igcinwayo okanye ithunyelwa naphi na.

Sikhawuleza kangakanani?

Ufudo malunga ne-0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Brazilian yellow scorpion malunga ne-1,4 km/h (0,87 mph)

Umntu ohambayo malunga ne-5 km/h (3,1 mph)

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

Reported scorpion stings in Brazil rose from 12,000 in 2000 to 140,000 by 2018.1

It has a low metabolic rate, so it can survive for months without eating.1

Scorpion numbers have grown in Brazilian cities, helped by plenty of cockroaches to eat and few predators.1

Its venom varies by region. Scorpions from Distrito Federal have an LD50 of 51.6 μg/kg, compared with 26 μg/kg for those from Minas Gerais. LD50 is the dose that kills half of the animals tested.1

Its tail is bulbous and segmented, with ridges and serrations, and it often curls forward over its back.1

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi: Tityus serrulatus
Iqela: Oonomadudwane
Usapho: Buthidae2
Ucwangco: Scorpiones
Amazwekazi: uMzantsi Melika
Iintsana: It usually reproduces without a male (parthenogenesis).1
Ingozi ebantwini: 4 / 5: Siyingozi kakhulu3

Apho iinyaniso zivela khona

Tityus serrulatus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Tityus serrulatus (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
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