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The species is between 18 and 30 mm long and up to 4 mm broad and is a chestnut brown coloration. It is similar to a variety of other European lithobiid centipedes, particularly the striped centipede, Lithobius variegatus, but L. forficatus does not have stripes on its legs.
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]
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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]
Symphylans, also known as garden centipedes or pseudocentipedes, ... (0.08 to 0.4 in) long, divided into two body regions: head and trunk. [4]
Scolopendra mutilans, formerly a subspecies of S. subspinipes. Scolopendra japonica, another former subspecies that has since been elevated to species status.. The species is normally considered to have a maximum length of 20 cm. [3] However, in 2018 a far larger specimen was recovered in Hawaii by Clayton Cambra, who captured what appeared to be a Scolopendra subspinipes that measured 36.6 cm ...
Oppose: It makes sense to have content on the orders, either in separate articles or collected on one page such as Orders of centipedes, separate from the Centipede article. I would personally favour separate articles for each order, but still prefer a seperate Orders of centipedes article over having the information mashed in to the Centipede ...