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#4387 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

European Yellow-tailed Scorpion

🇳🇱 Europese zwarte schorpioen ·Tetratrichobothrius flavicaudis

🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in Europe, not in NL
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © Fabian A. Boetzl · CC BY-NC 4.0
  2. 2. © Drepanostoma · CC BY 4.0
  3. 3. © Drepanostoma · CC BY 4.0
  4. 4. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
  5. 5. © Julien Tchilinguirian · CC BY 4.0
  6. 6. © Pascal Dubois · CC BY-NC 4.0
  7. 7. © Julien Tchilinguirian · CC BY 4.0
  8. 8. © Aurélie Sampéré · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
European Yellow-tailed Scorpion, photo 1 of 8
1/8 © Fabian A. Boetzl · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Tetratrichobothrius flavicaudis , or the European yellow-tailed scorpion , is a small black scorpion with yellow-brown legs and tail (metasoma). 8 in) long. It has relatively large, strong claws (pedipalps) and a short, thin tail. It is native to Southern Europe and Northwest Africa, but an introduced population exists in the United Kingdom.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 2,265iNaturalist observations

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.
  • 2,265 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
European Yellow-tailed Scorpion
Nederlands
Europese zwarte schorpioen
scientific name
Tetratrichobothrius flavicaudis
class
Arachnida
order
Scorpiones
family
Euscorpiidae
sightings in NL
0
sightings in Europe
1,375
sightings worldwide
2,265
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1095317, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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