Talk:Scorpion

Error

Can someone please help fix a error in wich Thyusana included thrips instead of silverfish (insect) because thrips are not Thyusanans? 2600:4040:BFEF:9F00:C04D:8C80:8EDA:1930 (talk) 12:34, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 March 2024

I suggest to add this picture to the paragraph "Fluorescence": https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scorpion_euscorpius_carpathicus_vis-uv.jpg This picture shows the difference in the appearance in normal light to UV-light. In normal light the scorpion is camouflaged, with UV it glows bright. Thank you for your efforts & greetings from Germany! erinacaeus Erinacaeus (talk) 20:58, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: Thank you for your requested edit and for your contributions to Wikimedia Commons, as it appears you are the picture uploader. This appears to be a case of taste or personal preference. In that case, I will prefer the status quo. I don't know how much value the reader is going to get in seeing the comparison when there is no shortage of non-UV scorpion images in functionally similar positions. It seems most appropriate for the section named to focus on images of scorpions under UV light. Cheers! —Sirdog (talk) 04:43, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Clarification tag

@EducatedRedneck: You added a clarification tag in the etymology section. Looking at the possible meanings of IE, I see Indo-European family of languages. Perhaps that's what is meant? I'm 90% thinking it is, but that's not 100%... - UtherSRG (talk) 22:51, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

@UtherSRG That's was my guess as well, with the same thinking; I'm not 100% sure, which is a clarity issue. That whole statement about "no native etymology" is unsourced, so maybe I should've just put a CN tag on that. EducatedRedneck (talk) 23:50, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

I was thinking the same thing, but not with enough confidence to make any edits along those lines. DonIago (talk) 06:37, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Yes, that's right. Fixed. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:40, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Cool. But what does it mean to have no native Indo-European etymology? - UtherSRG (talk) 21:56, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

It would mean that there were no scorpions on the Steppes of South Russia where the Yamnaya lived, so that the word did not exist in Proto-Indo-European, and that the word had been borrowed from another language family when Indo-European people arrived in Greece and encountered the animals. The first half of this is likely true but not easy to source; the second part is now sourced. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:59, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Lobsters

They look like lobsters. Are they related in any way? ~2026-45692-07 (talk) 04:09, 16 September 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk pages are not forums. However, you are right: both are arthropods. The relationship is distant, as scorpions are arachnids (with spiders), while lobsters are crustaceans (with prawns and crabs). Chiswick Chap (talk) 04:44, 16 September 2026 (UTC)