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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
Class: | Chilopoda |
Order: | Scutigeromorpha |
Family: | Scutigeridae |
Genus: | Scutigera |
Species: | S. linceci
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Binomial name | |
Scutigera linceci
Wood, 1867
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Scutigera linceci, the Arizona house centipede [2] [3] (originally described as Cermatia linceci) is a species of the Scutigeromorph centipede found in the Southern United States and Central America. [4] [5] Its species name refers to Dr Lincecum, a field naturalist. [6] In the wild, they live under stones and in hollow logs, but the species frequently enters human habitation. [3] [6] [7]
Scutigera linceci is much smaller than the common house centipede, Scutigera coleoptrata, [note 1] growing to only 3.8 centimetres (1.5 in), and can further by differentiated from the latter species by the shape of the head and tergites, and its colouration. [3] [7] [8]
Scutigera linceci | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
Class: | Chilopoda |
Order: | Scutigeromorpha |
Family: | Scutigeridae |
Genus: | Scutigera |
Species: | S. linceci
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Binomial name | |
Scutigera linceci
Wood, 1867
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Scutigera linceci, the Arizona house centipede [2] [3] (originally described as Cermatia linceci) is a species of the Scutigeromorph centipede found in the Southern United States and Central America. [4] [5] Its species name refers to Dr Lincecum, a field naturalist. [6] In the wild, they live under stones and in hollow logs, but the species frequently enters human habitation. [3] [6] [7]
Scutigera linceci is much smaller than the common house centipede, Scutigera coleoptrata, [note 1] growing to only 3.8 centimetres (1.5 in), and can further by differentiated from the latter species by the shape of the head and tergites, and its colouration. [3] [7] [8]