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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Centipedes (Chilopoda) » Stone Centipedes (Lithobiomorpha) » Lithobiidae » Lithobius » Brown Centipede (Lithobius forficatus)
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Millipede - Lithobius forficatus
Copyright © 2013 WanderingMogwai

Millipede - Lithobius forficatus
Schwenksville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
November 11, 2013
Size: ~2.5 - 3 cm
I grew up calling these and several other species 'Millipedes', they are judged only by being different from centipedes for being venomous. This particular critter type used to and still gives me the heebie jeebies. this one and way too many others were under a sun warmed sheet of particle board behind the shed. I had lifted it up hunting spiders which I also found a good many of.
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Contributed by WanderingMogwai on 11 November, 2013 - 11:32pm
Last updated 9 April, 2014 - 8:10am

Moved
Moved from Stone Centipedes.
… Joseph DeSisto Alling, 9 April, 2014 - 8:10am login or register to post comments

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… Ken Wolgemuth, 12 November, 2013 - 5:02am login or register to post comments

Stone Centipede
Maybe something from Lithobiomorpha.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/13169/bgimage
… Chao "Jimmy" Wu, 11 November, 2013 - 11:40pm login or register to post comments

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