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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Centipedes (Chilopoda) » Bark Centipedes (Scolopendromorpha) » Plutoniumidae » Theatops » Theatops posticus
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a third centipede - Theatops posticus
Copyright © 2010 Anita Schiller

a third centipede - Theatops posticus
Jesse H. Jones Park and Nature Center, Harris County, Texas, USA
December 6, 2010
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Contributed by Anita Schiller on 7 December, 2010 - 3:58pm
Last updated 28 April, 2015 - 9:53pm

Moved
Moved from Theatops.
… Joseph DeSisto Alling, 28 April, 2015 - 9:53pm login or register to post comments

Moved
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… Ray Fisher, 28 November, 2012 - 5:05pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Centipedes.

I'm pretty sure of order. Not many species (less than 30) but I don't know how to identify them. About half are in the guide.

Can you tell whether it has 21 or 23 pairs of legs?
… John F. Carr, 27 December, 2010 - 7:27pm login or register to post comments

 
I counted 21 pairs.
I counted 21 pairs.
… Anita Schiller , 5 January, 2011 - 8:49am login or register to post comments

 
Rules out one family
Scolopocryptopidae has 23 pairs of legs so it isn't that family. I think the terminal legs are too small for Cryptops. That still leaves a few genera.
… John F. Carr, 7 January, 2011 - 7:02pm login or register to post comments

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… John F. Carr, 7 December, 2010 - 4:59pm login or register to post comments

 
anyone able to id this centip
anyone able to id this centipede?
… Anita Schiller , 10 December, 2010 - 8:36am login or register to post comments

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