Found: In cracks and under rocks on a rocky outcrop in grassland
Date: November 2003
Length: Approx. 12cm
Description: Dark body with yellow legs and telson, lighter chela with darkened tips and joints. Similar in colouration to H. troglodytes, but chelae not as sharply angular and elongated and obviously much smaller overall! Males have longer tails and smaller, narrower bodies than females. The most obvious difference between the female and the male is the glossy appearance of the female tergites vs the matt tergites of the male.
Comments: I was ecstatic when I smashed open a large, cracked chunk of concrete (from old roadworks) next to the road and a big female Hadogenes rolled out of the debris! Casting my eye over the fence I spotted the rocky outcop running along the ridge (see picture below) and made a beeline for it, unearthing these beauties in a short while. By the way, the place is scorp-lover's paradise - in 2 hours I found Opistophthalmus glabrifrons, Cheloctonus jonesii, Uroplectes triangulifer and the undescribed Uroplectes sp. And all this in broad daylight too! |
