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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Centipedes (Chilopoda) » Bark Centipedes (Scolopendromorpha) » Scolopendridae » Scolopendra » Scolopendra alternans
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That's not huge--THIS is HUGE...Scolopendromorpha in Florida Keys - Scolopendra alternans
Copyright © 2007 D. Armenta

That's not huge--THIS is HUGE...Scolopendromorpha in Florida Keys - Scolopendra alternans
Key Largo, Monroe County, Florida, USA
January 21, 2007
Size: 5 inches
This is another S.Alternans--I am looking for them now! This little fella (5.6 inches) was happily chowing on the last remains of a big cockroach (euphemistically referred to as a "Palmetto Bug" here in Florida)
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Contributed by xsquid on 26 January, 2007 - 1:37am

Scolopendra alternans
Scolopendra alternans Leach, 1815, which occurs from Dade & Monroe cos., Florida, and the Bahamas southward through the Greater & Lesser Antilles to northern coastal South America. It appears to have "rafted" to the Keys from Cuba during the Pleistocene.
… Rowland Shelley, 7 March, 2007 - 7:38pm login or register to post comments

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I've unlinked this image since it is a different individual of species shown in this photo:
… Jim McClarin, 26 January, 2007 - 4:30am login or register to post comments

 
Hi,Thank you for your repli
Hi,
Thank you for your reply.

It kind of resembled a centipede but at the same time, was quite different. The differences are...

1)Color was kind of a grey (dry leaf) color. Hard to remember for sure though.

2)Each leg split into two at about mid-length of the leg resulting in each leg having two feet rather than one.

3)I don't think that the body was a flexible as a centipede's.

4)Can't remember what the head looked like.

5) I seem to remember the body segments as being slightly more pronounced and not as many of them.

6) Had a heavier body than the pictured centipede's. The one in the top picture is close but the legs are not the same.

It really drives me crazy that I have not been able to identify it after so many years. I've actually considered taking a camping trip there to maybe locate another one.

Thanks-Bill
… cameraniac, 21 September, 2012 - 10:38pm login or register to post comments

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