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Giant Redheaded Centipede - Scolopendra heros
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 - 5:31pm

Head of Scolopendra heros sho
Head of Scolopendra heros showing both sets of ocelli and maxillary palps above the black tip of the left prehensor, through which the poison clands empty.
… Rowland Shelley, 7 March, 2007 - 8:54pm

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