Image 1. Male & female H. phipsoni engaged in mating dance ‘promenade à deux’.

Image 2. Male H. phipsoni massaging the female’s chelicerae to make her more cooperative and less aggressive.

Image 3. Female H. phipsoni with its mesosoma arched, an act performed for sperm uptake.

Image 4. Female H. phipsoni with juveniles.

Image 5. A juvenile.

Image 6. A deformed juvenile without the metasoma.

Image 7. Postinsemination spermatophore of H. phipsoni.

Figure 1. Diagrammatic representation of the spermatophore of H. phipsoni.

Table 1. Courtship and mating behavior of Heterometrus phipsoni and Heterometrus scaber

Parameters	H. phipsoni	H. scaber
	(This work)	(Polis, 1990:83)
Initiation	Male	Male
Male juddering	+	-
Male pectinmovement	+	+
Clubbing	+	-
Pedipalp grip	+	+
Chelicera grip	+	+
Sexual sting	+	-
Chelicera massage	+	+
Pedipalp Massage	+	-
Male sand scraping	+	-
Female head stand	+	+
Post mating escape	Male	Male