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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Centipedes (Chilopoda) » Stone Centipedes (Lithobiomorpha) » Lithobiidae

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Copyright © 2015 Jordan Landerman

Small Red Centipedes

Elk Grove, Sacramento County, California, USA
February 4, 2015
Size: Largest one: ~4.5mm

Found a few of these red centipedes, of varying sizes, under a rock. If more pictures of different views are needed, I will gladly take them. (I have a dissecting microscope that I can use for close-up pictures if needed.) They seem to be ok kept communally. I have seen similar red centipedes in the same area that were much larger, so I am assuming these are all immatures.

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Contributed by Jordan Landerman on 4 February, 2015 - 2:56am
Last updated 11 April, 2015 - 10:26pm

Moved

Moved from Stone Centipedes.

… Joseph DeSisto Alling, 11 April, 2015 - 10:26pm

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Lithobiomorpha, probably the

Lithobiomorpha, probably the family Lithobiidae. If you do a closeup of the eyes I can say which family for sure (Lithobiids have more than one ocellus on each side, Henicopids only have one). After that, though, I'd need to look at a dead specimen.

… Joseph DeSisto Alling, 8 February, 2015 - 3:23pm

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I will attempt to take a close-up picture of the eyes, and post it here. I'd be willing to send you some specimens if you could ID them for me! Are immature specimens ok?

… Jordan Landerman, 8 February, 2015 - 6:05pm

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I can almost certainly give y

I can almost certainly give you a species ID if you send me some specimens! Immatures are fine, but try and send me specimens of multiple sizes. The family Lithobiidae is very diverse and the different sizes may represent different species as well.

You can send specimens to:

Biological Collections attn. Joseph DeSisto
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut Unit 3043
Storrs, CT 06269-3043

Thanks!

… Joseph DeSisto Alling, 8 February, 2015 - 6:24pm

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Not communal..

So I found out the hard way they are not communal, even though I found them clustered together under the same rock. The biggest one killed the other 3. :-(

… Jordan Landerman, 4 February, 2015 - 5:17am

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… Ken Wolgemuth, 4 February, 2015 - 4:58am

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