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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Centipedes (Chilopoda) » Bark Centipedes (Scolopendromorpha) » Scolopendridae » Scolopendra » Giant Redheaded Centipede (Scolopendra heros)
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Giant Redheaded Centipede - Scolopendra heros
Copyright © 2004 Charles Schurch Lewallen

Giant Redheaded Centipede - Scolopendra heros
Eastern, Oklahoma, USA
September 12, 2003
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Contributed by Charles Schurch Lewallen on 25 October, 2004 - 3:16pm
Last updated 13 October, 2005 - 6:13am

Which centipede is it that wi
Which centipede is it that will attach to a host? Story I got from a friend in New Mexico is this thing attached itself to his leg, and could not be removed until he covered it in some salve/vaseline, and it let go.....creepazoidal.......
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Scolopendra heros
Head of Scolopendra heros Girard, 1853.
… Rowland Shelley, 7 March, 2007 - 8:40pm login or register to post comments

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