#4423 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Striped Bark Scorpion
🇳🇱 Driestrepige schorsschorpioen ·Centruroides vittatus
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 outside Europe
📍 Wildflower Ln, Austin, TX, US
📍 Montemorelos, N.L., MX
📍 78596, Weslaco, TX, US
📍 Güémez, Tamps., Mexico
📍 Novella, Adkins, TX, US
📍 S Linwood Dr, Sand Springs, OK, US
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Judy Gallagher · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Wildflower Ln, Austin, TX, US:© Caleb Helsel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Montemorelos, N.L., MX:© mariogarza100 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 78596, Weslaco, TX, US:© Ashley M Bradford · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Güémez, Tamps., Mexico:© Marco Zozaya · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Novella, Adkins, TX, US:© Antonio Aguilar · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. S Linwood Dr, Sand Springs, OK, US:© endearingexotics · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The striped bark scorpion ( Centruroides vittatus ) is an extremely common scorpion found throughout the midsection of the United States and northern Mexico. S.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 17,347 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Thomas Say in 1821 (205 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Striped Bark Scorpion
- Nederlands
- Driestrepige schorsschorpioen
- scientific name
- Centruroides vittatus
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Scorpiones
- family
- Buthidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 17,347
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1821 by Thomas Say
relatives· Buthidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 119056, Wikidata Q3023831, GBIF 6894182, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.