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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Centipedes (Chilopoda) » Stone Centipedes (Lithobiomorpha) » Lithobiidae » Bothropolys » Bothropolys multidentatus
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Stone Centipede - Bothropolys multidentatus
Copyright © 2010 John R. Maxwell

Stone Centipede - Bothropolys multidentatus
Camp Creek Run, Marlton, Burlington County, New Jersey, USA
August 18, 2010
Size: Maybe around 21 mm?

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Contributed by John R. Maxwell on 28 August, 2010 - 11:04am
Last updated 1 April, 2014 - 12:57pm

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… Tom Bentley, 1 April, 2014 - 12:57pm login or register to post comments

Bothropolys multidentatus
There does not appear to be a guide page for this species. This specimen is B. multidentatus because of:

- more than 6 prosternal teeth on each side of the prosternum
- productions (pointed projections) on pedal segments 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, and 13
- 20 segments on each antenna
- location in the northeastern U.S.

B. multidentatus is, along with Lithobius forficatus, one of the most common large lithobiomorphs in the eastern U.S. These two are also the only lithobiomorphs in this area that regularly exceed 15 mm in length.

Here's a link to a page on this species, on site I'm making on centipede identification: http://theweeklychilopod.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/id-guide-bothropolys-multidentatus-newport-1845/
… Joseph DeSisto Alling, 1 April, 2014 - 12:18pm login or register to post comments

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