Leiurus abdullahbayrami

[1] Leiurus abdullahbayram was originally considered conspecific with the deathstalker (L. quinquestriatus), but was reclassified in 2009 based on mitochondrial DNA analyses.

[2] Leiurus abdullahbayrami has a brown cephalothorax, yellow legs, head, and tail.

In scientific terms, the background color of the prosoma, mesosoma, and segment V of metasoma is black and the appendages of the Leiurus Abdullahbayrami are yellowish.

[3] Leiurus abdullahbayrami can be found in rocky areas with short and scattered vegetation, in semi-arid regions on dry calcareous soils.

This means that they can eat small snakes, lizards, or rodents if they can hold onto them long enough to inject their venom and kill them.

They are nocturnal, and tend to be more active on moonless nights because birds, bats,and mice prey on them.

Once she appears, she is not ready for physical contact with the male, and he calms her by injecting slight doses of his venom into her pedipalp or cephalothorax.

The male then find the perfect place on the ground to deposit his spermatophore, and then he guides the female to stand over it to introduce it to her genital opening.

[8] Only a small portion of scorpions are considered harmful to humans, but life-threatening symptoms are caused from only one sting.

After one hour, the site was reddened, severe pain would come in waves and last about four minutes, and seizures started to occur.

The sting impairs the left ventricle contractility and heart failure occurs.

These findings suggest that L. abdullahbayrami might pose a serious health threat to infants due to their smaller body weight.

[15] The venom of scorpions in general and of this species in particular has been employed in research on treating nervous, immune, infection, cardiovascular and neoplastic diseases.

Leiurus abdullahbayrami predators
Typical L. abdullahbayrami habitat. They may be found under rocks or in small rock cavities.
Leiurus abdullahbayrami prey