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Unspeciated Centipede (Strigamia sp) - Strigamia

Unspeciated Centipede (Strigamia sp) - Strigamia
Renton, King County, Washington, USA
October 17, 2014
Apppeared centipede was about four inches long. Would like to narrow down species and understand how long these can get. I've seen these before, a good three inches or so, but this probably longest I've come across to date. Was under a log. A close-up of head is also included in this record in case that helps with speciation

(There are other pictures, just unfortunate this guy would not hold still for a second. Was fun having him crawl on my hand so I was able to actually get some pictures... I generally don't like to take creatures home for photographing - and prefer to minimize how much I disturb them - which normally means not handing for the most part!)

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Unspeciated Centipede (Strigamia sp) - Strigamia Unspeciated Centipede (Strigamia sp) - Strigamia

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Strigamia sp.
You are right about the genus but unfortunately the western species are very poorly known, most of them known only from the type locality and not studied since their original description.

They can have well over 80 pairs of legs depending on the species. There is tremendous variation in leg count, both between and within species. One rare eastern species recently described, Strigamia hoffmani, has only 29-35 or so pairs of legs, making it one of the smallest geophilomorphs in the world.

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