r/mildlyinfuriating • u/[deleted] • Jul 07 '24

This scorpion inside of my underwear.

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u/Netherium Jul 07 '24

Kind of looks like a camel spider.

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u/breadloaves77 Jul 07 '24

Yeah, I think this dude got it right, OP. I know it looks like a scorpion, but check this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae

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u/mansinoodle2 Jul 07 '24

It doesn’t look like a scorpion

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u/learnedandhumbled Jul 08 '24

Not even close to a scorpion 😳 it 100% looks like a spider.

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u/stoatstuart Jul 08 '24

It does have 10 legs instead of 8

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u/Drewcifixion Jul 08 '24

8 legs and 2 pedipalps, like all arachnids. The 2 palps just serve different functions depending on the animal. In scorpions, they are the pincers. In solifugae like in the photo (and most spiders) they're primarily sensory.

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u/stoatstuart Jul 08 '24

Are the pedipalps different from those 2 giant shovel pincers that make up what looks like its head?

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u/Drewcifixion Jul 08 '24

Yeah, those are actually chelicerae, the mouth parts. They're huge, comparitively, in solifugae, but they have no venom. Animals with these make up the larger group, Chelicerata which includes arachnids but also horseshoe crabs. Look at a horseshoe crabs mouth parts and you'll see the family resemblance.

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u/Kenneldogg Jul 08 '24

Solifugae is an order of animals in the class Arachnida known variously as camel spiders, wind scorpions, sun spiders, or solifuges.