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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Centipedes (Chilopoda) » Stone Centipedes (Lithobiomorpha)
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Unknown Arthropod
Copyright © 2017 Susan Leach Snyder

Unknown Arthropod
Naples , Collier County, Florida, USA
January 23, 2017
Size: 2 mm
This arthropod was living in leaf litter beneath a shiny wild coffee bush and a laurel oak tree. It looks somewhat like Class Symphyla. The size is right and it is soft-bodied, slender, lacks pigment, and appears to have two body regions: a head and trunk. I has 8 pairs of legs and would fit with the description of a Symphyla nymph. But the specimen doesn't fit with Symphyla because the antennae are not beaded and it does not appear to have cerci. Also, it has eyes (or at least eye spots), which members of Class Symphyla lack.

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Contributed by Susan Leach Snyder on 4 April, 2017 - 2:08pm
Last updated 12 July, 2018 - 8:04am

Moved
Moved from Myriapods.
… Joseph DeSisto Alling, 12 July, 2018 - 8:04am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Arthropods.

Juvenile centipede, perhaps?

… Ken Wolgemuth, 4 April, 2017 - 4:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes, this is a juvenile litho
Yes, this is a juvenile lithobiomorph or stone centipede. The species is impossible to tell at this stage unfortunately.
… Joseph DeSisto Alling, 12 July, 2018 - 8:05am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
so much for the identification of the Order. I really appreciate the help!
… Susan Leach Snyder, 14 July, 2018 - 1:22pm login or register to post comments

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