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whip scorpion

noun

  1. any nonvenomous arachnid of the order Uropygi (or Pedipalpi ), typically resembling a scorpion but lacking a sting See also vinegarroon

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The team also revealed a treasure trove of underground species, including blind spiders, blind harvestman, and a whip scorpion, all new to science, in a previously unexplored cave system.

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This was a harmless arachnid called an amblypygid, sometimes known as a whip spider or tailless whip scorpion, which was neither spider nor scorpion.

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Yet they also have a segmented abdomen and a long tail, like a whip scorpion’s whip, Wang and his colleagues report today in the same journal.

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Michael Seiter, a tailless whip scorpion expert at Austria's University of Vienna, say the study is the first to statistically describe the arachnids' conflicts—an improvement upon random observations in the field.

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True, an El Paso report claims that a man stung by a whip scorpion died in twelve hours; but the details are so vague as to be in a high degree unconvincing.

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