Citations:nigger killer
English citations of nigger killer
- Synonyms: giant vinegaroon, giant whip scorpion, grampus, mule killer
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[1886 April, George Marx, “Notes on Thelyphonus Latr.”, in Entomologica Americana, volume 2, number 1, page 39:
- Lucas descrbied in his monograph 7 species of Thelyphonus, amongst which is T. giganteus which is found quite frequently in the Southern States, where it is much feared by the people who call it Nigger Killer, Mule Killer, grampus, etc.]
- 1890, Report on Injurious and Other Insects, page 190:
- In Arachnida: "The mule-killer," or "the nigger-killer," Thelyphonus giganteus Latr. From W.E. Walsh, Benson Arizona.
- 1894, Albert Henry Buck, A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences, page 748:
- The genus Telyphonus Latr. (Whip-tail, Nigger Killer, Mule Killer, Grampus, etc.) looks more like a scorpion.