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Giant Redheaded Centipede (Scolopendra heros)
Photo#50108
Copyright © 2006
Seth Patterson
Giant Redheaded Centipede -
Scolopendra heros
Outside of Brownsville off Highway 48, Cameron County, Texas, USA
April 30, 2006
Size: Approximately 5 inches
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Contributed by
Seth Patterson
on 30 April, 2006 - 5:29pm
Scolopendra heros
Still another color variant of S. heros Girard, 1853, the largest-bodied centipede in North America, growing up to 7 inches or so. It ranges from Kansas & southern Missouri to Louisiana, and westward through Texas & New Mexico/eastern Colorado to the Colorado River in Arizona. It ranges southward about 1/4 of the way into Mexico, and has not been authentically found west of the Colorado River in California.
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Rowland Shelley
, 7 March, 2007 - 8:46pm
Great photos
This thing looks dangerous! Hope I never run into one!
Carla Finley
Venice, FL
http://community.webshots.com/user/CarlaFinley
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Carla Finley
, 1 May, 2006 - 10:53am
