The English of El Tityus, known as the scorpion is in vulnerability at the national level. It is a small species of 3cm in length, whose general color is dull ocher yellow with a dark brown stinger, just like the ends of the tweezers. It has a thin tail and a toothed type stinger., that is, with the appearance of being double.

The scorpion is endemic to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta massif, between the 700 and 1400 m altitude, found in all aspects of it. Inhabitant of litter mattresses and cracks in the bark of trees inside mature forests with little or no intervention..

They are species of nocturnal activity that preys on small invertebrates that it captures in ambush., its poison has important pharmaceutical properties and is threatened by the destruction of the forests of the coffee strip in the mountains.