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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Centipedes (Chilopoda) » Tropical Centipedes (Scolopendromorpha)

Order Scolopendromorpha - Tropical Centipedes

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References
Tiger Centipede - Scolopendra polymorpha Green Centipede - Hemiscolopendra marginata Giant Redheaded Centipede - Scolopendra heros Large Centipede - Scolopendra viridis Theatops spinicaudus Giant Red-Headed Centipede - Scolopendra heros Giant Red-Headed Centipede - Scolopendra heros unknown centipede - Scolopendra
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Chilopoda (Centipedes)
Order Scolopendromorpha (Tropical Centipedes)
Numbers
There are 21 species of Scolopendromorpha Centipedes native to North America, north of Mexico. (Plus six introduced species.)
Identification
21 or 23 pairs of legs.
Range
Distribution of Scolopendromorpha in North America - Dr. Rowland M. Shelley
Food
Predacious
Remarks
They can bite and also pinch with their last pair of legs.
Print References
Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. 1958. Spiders, Scorpions, Centipedes, and Mites. (revised, 1968). Pegamon, Oxford. 228 pp.

Shelley, R. M. 2002. A synopsis of the North American centipedes of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda). Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir 5:1-108.
Internet References
Scolopendromorpha Centipedes of North America, north of Mexico - Dr. Rowland M. Shelley, Curator of Terrestrial Invertebrates, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences

Centipedes and Millipedes with Emphasis on North America Fauna - Rowland M. Shelley
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:31pm
Additional contributions by Lynette, Mike Quinn
Last updated 23 November, 2007 - 10:09am

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