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long skinny centipede? - Geophilus vittatus

long skinny centipede? - Geophilus vittatus
Fairfield, Somerset County, Maine, USA
May 27, 2012
Size: 60-70mm
found while raking leaf and bark debris

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long skinny centipede? - Geophilus vittatus long skinny centipede? - Geophilus vittatus

Moved
Moved from Soil Centipedes.

Geophilus vittatus
Based on the diamond-markings down the back and the uniform body width.

Maine has an extremely poor record of its centipede fauna (only 4 species, all lithobiomorphs). As a result, this species, which is abundant everywhere else in the east, is a new state record. So if you see more pedes in Maine, please post them! :)

 
pede
Thank you, and I will try to get more pictures...they seem fairly abundant here, but usually not when I have a camera on hand of course.

Moved
Moved from Centipedes.

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