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Scolopendra subspinipes is a species of very large centipede found throughout southeastern Asia. One of the most widespread and common species in the genus Scolopendra, it is also found on virtually all land areas around and within the Indian Ocean, all of tropical and subtropical Asia from Russia to the islands of Malaysia and Indonesia, Australia, South and Central America, the Caribbean ...
Centipedes are elongated segmented animals with one pair of legs per body segment. All centipedes are venomous and can inflict painful stings, injecting their venom through pincer-like appendages known as forcipules or toxicognaths, which are actually modified legs instead of fangs. Despite the name, no species of centipede has exactly 100 legs ...
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] Specimens may have 21 or 23 segments. [3]
Scutigera coleoptrata, also known as the house centipede, is a species of centipede that is typically yellowish-grey and has up to 15 pairs of long legs. Originating in the Mediterranean region , it has spread to other parts of the world, where it can live in human homes. [ 1 ]
Scolopendra galapagoensis, also known as the Galápagos centipede [3] [4] and Darwin's goliath centipede, [5] [6] is species of very large centipede in the family Scolopendridae. [7] It is the only representative of the genus Scolopendra on the Galapagos Islands , among twelve other species of centipede present on the Islands.
Scolopendra alcyona, the Halcyon giant centipede, [3] is a species of amphibious centipede found in the Ryukyu Archipelago of Japan and Taiwan. [4] [3] It is the third amphibious member of the genus Scolopendra discovered so far, and the largest species of centipede in Japan, as well as the first new centipede species discovered in Japan for 143 years.
Schendylidae is a family of soil centipedes in the superfamily Himantarioidea and the order Geophilomorpha. [1] [2] These centipedes are found in the Americas, the Palearctic region, Africa, Madagascar, Australia, and southeast Asia, and also on some Pacific islands. [3] This family was first proposed by the American biologist Orator F. Cook in ...
Symphylans, or garden centipedes, are closely related to centipedes and millipedes. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] They are 3 to 6 cm long, and have 6 to 12 pairs of legs, depending on their life stage. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] [ 31 ] Their eggs, which are white and spherical and covered with small hexagonal ridges, are laid in batches of 4 to 25 at a time, and usually ...