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Chinese red-headed centipede

Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans

Photo by Scott Frazier
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Field Notes

Description:

This is a provisional identification.

Habitat:

Found here inside house in the equatorial tropics of northern New Guinea. The house is in a residential area with yards, gardens and patches of disturbed remnant forest.

Notes:

I'm glad there were no dishes in the sink!

Reference Links:

Chinese red-headed centipede, Australian Faunal Directory

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
Scott Frazier
Thanks. Well maybe, one without the classic fully "red" head. I added a zoom of the head by the way.
nivedc
This seems like a Chinese red-headed yellow-leg (Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans). (Wish you could have gotten a better shot of the head). I had read up about this 4 years back, when I picked up a similar one on a car trip to a very "wet" Mahabaleshwar, India. We spotted it on our way back, and after 2 weeks of searching the car, it finally decided to "appear" on my wife's head on a night drive!

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Biota of S. Frazier's Yard at Sentani, Papua, Indonesia

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PublishedFebruary 24, 2013

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