This species is featured in the movie "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." In one scene Mad-eye Moody tortures this animal with the Imperius Curse until Hermione Granger begs him to stop. As the whipscorpion is tossed onto different students in the classroom, Moody makes the following two contradictory statements: "Don't worry, completely harmless....If she bites, she's lethal." In case you are wondering, this spider relative is nonvenomous.