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Florida blue centipede - Hemiscolopendra marginata

Florida blue centipede - Hemiscolopendra marginata
Chapel Hill, Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, North Carolina, USA
April 1, 2014

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Hemiscolopendra marginata
The only other scolopendromorph that looks sort of like this in North Carolina is Scolpendra viridis, but even that has a different color pattern. Also, S. viridis, like most New World Scolpendra (except I think S. alternans?) have a crescent-shaped suture across the first leg-bearing segment, which this specimen appears to lack.

 
Florida blue centipede
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