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21 June
4 mi. E. Telmautepec, Oaxaca, Mexico
Sighted
Orange-fronted Parakeets (Aratinga auricapillus) numerous
Blk-tufted Oriole (2) Icterus galbula
Eveque-billed Ani (3) Crotophaga sulcirostris
Tropical Mockingbird (2) Mimus gilvus
Turned bricks + rocks on ground in and about house x: Found 59 specimens of medium sized scorpion (cephalothorax = average of ~3cm.; total length averaged ~9cm.) - a long legged species w/ extremely long abdomen. Even w/ long forceps specimens grabbed @ mid body (cephaloth.) almost staked the end of my forefinger; 3 ff were carrying young on their backs; 24 specimens of a centurides-like scorpion (_____________________)
(shiny blue-black cephalothorax, averaging 2cm.; total length 4 1/2 cm.); 13 spidery pygids (?) (cephalothorax 7mm; total length 15mm.; total span of 1st walking legs (greatly elongated) = 120mm on the largest specimen); 6 scutigeraid centipedes (12mm. long);
3 green-brown scolopendromorph centipedes; 2 roaches (blk w/ golden-terse orange-red stripe);
3 phalangids (short legged; red-orange body w/ transverse white stripe). Scarabid larvae were commonly found in excavations under rocks.
Ispids found in same situation as above scorpions + spidery pygids.