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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Centipedes (Chilopoda) » Stone Centipedes (Lithobiomorpha) » Lithobiidae » Bothropolys » Bothropolys multidentatus
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centipede - Bothropolys multidentatus
Copyright © 2009 Molly Jacobson

centipede - Bothropolys multidentatus
Beaver Brook Association, Hollis, New Hampshire, USA
November 29, 2009
Size: 1 in.
This is the only type of centipede I have ever found in my life- and I don't know what it is. Found under a log. They are super fast!! Body is an orangey brown, kinda like burnt umber.
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Contributed by Molly Jacobson on 1 December, 2009 - 2:16pm
Last updated 3 April, 2014 - 9:14pm

Moved
Moved from Stone Centipedes.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 3 April, 2014 - 9:14pm login or register to post comments

Bothropolys multidentatus
Based on:

- size
- only 20 antennal articles
- projections on segments 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, and 13
… Joseph DeSisto Alling, 3 April, 2014 - 8:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Centipedes.
… John F. Carr, 1 December, 2009 - 8:07pm login or register to post comments

Looks like it might be Order Lithobiomorpha
Looks like it has 15 pairs of legs...

See here
… Andrew Meeds, 1 December, 2009 - 3:20pm login or register to post comments

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