Southern Africa's pygmy thicktail scorpions: small, dark, litter-dwelling animals whose common name borrows the dangerous genus's silhouette without its stakes. The venom is mild, and the genus sits in the genuinely low-risk tier despite the family resemblance that names it.
Keeping is undemanding: sheltered, moderately humid setups with cover, at the moist end of the scorpion spectrum rather than the desert default. Small, sedentary, tolerant.
Southern African collection supplies a thin trade of occasional singles, and the genus sells mostly to regional completists. The honest market note is the resemblance itself: buyers occasionally pay thicktail-adjacent prices for an animal with none of the thicktail's clinical weight, in either direction of error. The name is a costume; the animal underneath is one of the shelf's mildest.
The line on each tile: lowest ask per day.
Rarity BETA Rarity is supply, and only supply: the tier is how many sellers have ever carried a species, and for a single seller, how many separate listings. Price is not part of it, and neither is how recently it appeared. Tiers are given to tarantula species only.