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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Centipedes (Chilopoda) » Stone Centipedes (Lithobiomorpha) » Lithobiidae » Bothropolys » Bothropolys multidentatus
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Stone Centipede - Bothropolys multidentatus
Copyright © 2005 Lynette Elliott

Stone Centipede - Bothropolys multidentatus
Fort Bragg, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA
December 28, 2005
Note the little red things attached on the body and legs in this picture and the other top view. Anyone know what they are?

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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 29 December, 2005 - 5:39pm
Last updated 6 April, 2014 - 10:46pm

Moved
Moved from Stone Centipedes.
… Joseph DeSisto Alling, 6 April, 2014 - 10:46pm login or register to post comments

Acari
The orange tiny animals which can be seen on the sides of the centipede's body are parasitic, bloodsucking Acari belonging to the suborder Prostigmata.
They are more commonly seen on Harvestmen (or Daddy-long-legs), which ironically are Arachnids related to the Acari, or on some big Insects. Indeed, I see some of them on a Centipede for the first time.
The white creature behind the left compound eye in an Acarian too. But, that it belongs to the same group as the others is not sure at all.
This one could well be only phoretic, but this is a mere hypothesis.
… Richard Vernier, 30 December, 2005 - 3:40am login or register to post comments

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