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Centipede (Scolopendra sp.) - Scolopendra heros

Centipede (Scolopendra sp.) - Scolopendra heros
Portal, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
July 20, 2012
A biologist friend of mine thought that this centipede was "not Scolopendra polymorpha, but possibly an odd-striped S. heros". Any thoughts? It was photographed at Sunny Flat Campground in Cave Creek Canyon, Chiricahua Mountains at an elevation of ~5,000 ft. on a rocky slope with a lot of leaf litter.

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Our Arizona S. heros
looks different from the Texas ones - red body, black head - but we also have the banded ones, Scolopendra polymorpha. Yours, with bands plus black on each end, does look like a hybrid of those two spp. No idea if that happens, though.

 
"Banded" morph of S. heros arizonensis??
Searching around online I came across a discussion on arachnoboards.com of individuals from the "Sky Islands" of southeastern AZ appearing to be a "banded" morph of Scolopendra heros arizonensis, with a different striped morph in central AZ. I did a Google Scholar search and found nothing on any genetic studies with different subspecies of S. heros, so it's hard to tell if individuals like the one I photographed represent only a phenotype/morph or a distinct genotype warranting separate subspecies status, or if they are hybrids between S. heros and S. polymorpha.

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