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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Centipedes (Chilopoda) » Bark Centipedes (Scolopendromorpha) » Scolopocryptopidae » Scolopocryptops » Scolopocryptops spinicaudus
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Centipede - Scolopocryptops spinicaudus
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Centipede - Scolopocryptops spinicaudus
Monte Bello Open Space Preserve, Hamm's Gulch Creek, Santa Clara County, California, USA
April 18, 2010
Size: 43 mm
ventral side of head showing forcipules

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Contributed by iNaturalist on 20 April, 2010 - 4:57pm
Last updated 8 May, 2014 - 11:10am

Very nice series!
Fantastic photo and view of the black-tipped forcipules (= "poison-jaws" = toxicognaths)...and other features of the ventral side of the head. Your excellent photos give good views of many characters.

(Just wish you had a close-up of the dorsum of the tergites. I'm curious about how subtle the "striae" are? I believe that's another character that helps separate spinicaudus from gracilis...our two CA species.)
… Aaron Schusteff, 20 January, 2015 - 1:51pm login or register to post comments

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