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House centipedes lay their eggs in spring. In a laboratory observation of 24 house centipedes, an average of 63 and a maximum of 151 eggs were laid. As with many other arthropods, the larvae look like miniature versions of the adult, albeit with fewer legs. Young centipedes have four pairs of legs when they are hatched.
Centipedes have one pair of legs per segment, while millipedes have two. Their heads differ in that millipedes have short, elbowed antennae, a pair of robust mandibles and a single pair of maxillae fused into a lip; centipedes have long, threadlike antennae, a pair of small mandibles, two pairs of maxillae and a pair of large venom claws. [10]
Scutigera is a centipede genus in the scutigeromorph (house centipede) family Scutigeridae, a group of centipedes with long limbs and true compound eyes (which were once thought to be secondary, re-evolved "pseudofacetted eyes" [1]).
House centipedes typically have 15 legs and can travel 1.3 feet-per-second, which explains why catching one of these centipedes in house is nearly impossible. The typical response to a house ...
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Trinidad, West Indies. Scolopendra gigantea, also known as the Peruvian giant yellow-leg centipede or Amazonian giant centipede, is a centipede in the genus Scolopendra.It is the largest centipede species in the world, with a length exceeding 30 centimetres (12 in). [2]
These centipedes are yellow and may grow up to 45 millimetres (1.8 in) in length. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] They are sightless, and rely on specialised sensory organs to sense movement, humidity and light. [ 10 ] Like other myriapods , they have an exoskeleton and a pair of antennae on their head and rear. [ 11 ]
Thereuopoda longicornis, also known as the long-legged centipede, is a species of centipede in the Scutigeridae family. It was first described in 1793 by Danish zoologist Johan Christian Fabricius .