Crawling Orange Bug - Lithobius microps

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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Centipedes (Chilopoda) » Stone Centipedes (Lithobiomorpha) » Lithobiidae » Lithobius » Lithobius microps

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Copyright © 2006 Mardon Erbland

Crawling Orange Bug - Lithobius microps

Logy Bay, Northeast Avalon, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
April 29, 2006
Size: 6 mm Body Length

This crawling bug was under a rock that I overturned in our backyard today, about 3:15 PM local time (NDT). Any ID?

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Contributed by Mardon Erbland on 29 April, 2006 - 7:37pm
Last updated 9 April, 2014 - 8:26am

Moved

Moved from Stone Centipedes.

… Joseph DeSisto Alling, 9 April, 2014 - 8:26am

Moved

Moved from Stone Centipedes.

… Joseph DeSisto Alling, 9 April, 2014 - 8:26am

15 pairs after all

Now that I look more carefully, I think this centipede has 15 pairs of legs after all -- it's missing one leg from each side. If you match up the legs and segments (one pair of legs per segment), you can see it's missing the 4th leg from the right side and the 7th leg from the left side.

… Peter Hollinger, 30 April, 2006 - 7:24am

Great eye!

Thanks for your work on this. :)

… Mardon Erbland, 9 April, 2014 - 8:57am

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