Regal Scorpion Sauceback

The regal scorpion sauceback split from its ancestor due to a series of genetic mutations occurring within an isolated population of river scorpion saucebacks. Unlike its ancestor, it has become a single-sex species consisting entirely of females as the males within the population died out due to predation and disease. While the remaining population would have been doomed, a very small number of females possessed a genetic mutation that allowed them to reproduce via gynogenesis. As this group eventually replaced the others, they began to spread, passing on the genes that furthered their pure-female race.

Genetic degradation would have eventually wiped this species out due to lack of genetic diversity had they not evolved a form of automatic parthenogenesis which caused the female young born to possess genes different from their mothers. This saved the species from extinction and provided genetic diversity, though it has also led to sterile hybrid males being born, though this is an extremely rare occurrence that is typically out of a thousand births.

In order to attract a suitable mate, the females possess a gland from which they can produce pheromones that prove irresistible to male saucebacks with which it can breed. They can breed with the swamimic scorpion sauceback, woomimic scorpion sauceback, rake scorpion sauceback, gothmimic sauceback or its ancestor the river scorpion sauceback. Besides this gland, they are able to mimic the various mating rituals of their potential mates via observation, and then use them to further their chances of succeeding in mating. These "tactics" help them to trick the males despite differences in appearances. After they have mated, the female will lay her eggs in a secure area after a gestation of nearly five months.