Pests > Pests Entities > Mites, Spiders, Scorpions > Scorpions > Liocheles australasiae, bark scorpion, CNMI

April 2005. A scorpion found at the port in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

It appears to be the bark scorpion, Liocheles australasiae [Ischnuridae] which is widespread in the Cook Islands. It lives under bark and debris, and is thought to be parthenogenic. It is commonly found on Guam, too, in trees and bushes.