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That's not huge--THIS is HUGE...Scolopendromorpha in Florida Keys - Scolopendra alternans
Copyright © 2007 D. Armenta

That's not huge--THIS is HUGE...Scolopendromorpha in Florida Keys - Scolopendra alternans
Key Largo, Monroe County, Florida, USA
January 21, 2007
Size: 5 inches
This is another S.Alternans--I am looking for them now! This little fella (5.6 inches) was happily chowing on the last remains of a big cockroach (euphemistically referred to as a "Palmetto Bug" here in Florida)
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Contributed by xsquid on 26 January, 2007 - 1:37am

Scolopendra alternans
Scolopendra alternans Leach, 1815, which occurs from Dade & Monroe cos., Florida, and the Bahamas southward through the Greater & Lesser Antilles to northern coastal South America. It appears to have "rafted" to the Keys from Cuba during the Pleistocene.
… Rowland Shelley, 7 March, 2007 - 7:38pm login or register to post comments

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I've unlinked this image since it is a different individual of species shown in this photo:
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