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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Centipedes (Chilopoda) » Soil Centipedes (Geophilomorpha) » Geophilidae » Arctogeophilus » Eastern Saw-toothed Centipede (Arctogeophilus umbraticus)
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Soil Centipede - Arctogeophilus umbraticus
Copyright © 2004 Troy Bartlett

Soil Centipede - Arctogeophilus umbraticus
Parson's Run, Duluth, Fulton County, Georgia, USA
March 25, 2003

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Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Last updated 16 July, 2014 - 12:32pm

Moved
Moved from Soil Centipedes.
… Joseph DeSisto Alling, 16 July, 2014 - 12:32pm login or register to post comments

Arctogeophilus umbraticus
Centipedes like this from the southeast are usually Arctogephilus umbraticus. The large head with fangs that extend beyond the front of the cephalic plate is important, and it has 47 or so pairs of legs.

I wouldn't have recognized it before but this summer I'm surveying the geophilids of Great Smoky Mountains NP so I'm becoming more familiar with the southeastern species. This one is the most common geophilomorph in the southeast but doesn't go as far north as New England.
… Joseph DeSisto Alling, 16 July, 2014 - 12:28pm login or register to post comments

Order Geophilomorpha; I don't
Order Geophilomorpha; I don't know genus, species, or family
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