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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Centipedes (Chilopoda) » Bark Centipedes (Scolopendromorpha) » Scolopendridae » Scolopendra » Common Desert Centipede (Scolopendra polymorpha)
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centipede - Scolopendra polymorpha
Copyright © 2006 jesselynn

centipede - Scolopendra polymorpha
Norco, Riverside County, California, USA
Size: 7"
I found this in my mother's house just wandering around. Any ideas of what kind of centipede this is? It is about 7" long, with 20 pairs of legs and moves REALLY fast. It likes to eat mealworms and junebugs.
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Contributed by jesselynn on 13 October, 2006 - 4:38pm
Last updated 13 October, 2006 - 8:16pm

i found one just like this in
i found one just like this in my house in new mexico. does anyone know how dangerous they are?
… Christina, 5 May, 2010 - 5:39am login or register to post comments

awsome
i think all bugs are awsome all one time i found a white centipede
… bugs are awsome999, 10 May, 2008 - 11:12pm login or register to post comments

Scolopendra polymorpha
In California, this can only be Scolopendra polymorpha Wood, 1861, the only native representative of the Scolopendridae in the state. It occurs from east Texas to the Pacific and spreads northward into Utah and all the way to the Plains of eastern Montana. To the south it occurs well into Mexico. This is an especially large individual.
… Rowland Shelley, 7 March, 2007 - 7:41pm login or register to post comments

Scolopendra polymorpha, a ver
Scolopendra polymorpha, a very common southern california species.
… Gordon C. Snelling, 13 October, 2006 - 6:28pm login or register to post comments

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