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title: "Arizona Bark Scorpion"
description: "Centruroides sculpturatus — Insetti e ragni. The Arizona bark scorpion (Centruroides sculpturatus, once included in Centruroides exilicauda) is a small light brown scorpion common to the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/arizona-bark-scorpion
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Arizona Bark Scorpion

> Centruroides sculpturatus — Insetti e ragni. The Arizona bark scorpion (Centruroides sculpturatus, once included in Centruroides exilicauda) is a small light brown scorpion common to the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.

- Scientific name: *Centruroides sculpturatus*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: `desert` (Deserto)
- iNaturalist observations: 3447
- Wikidata: [Q666300](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q666300)
- iNaturalist taxon: [143985](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/143985)

## Names

- en: Arizona Bark Scorpion
- es: Alacrán de corteza

## Countries with the most observations

US (2944), MX (164)

## Summary

The Arizona bark scorpion (Centruroides sculpturatus, once included in Centruroides exilicauda) is a small light brown scorpion common to the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. An adult male can reach 8 centimetres (3.1 in) of body length, while a female is slightly smaller, with a maximum length of 7 centimetres (2.8 in).

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_bark_scorpion

## Photo

![Arizona Bark Scorpion](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/arizona-bark-scorpion/medium.jpg)

Photo: Cecelia Alexander · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/13095703

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/arizona-bark-scorpion?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).