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Alipes grandidieri, most commonly known as the feather-tail centipede, is a species of centipede. [2] It is a member of the genus Alipes and the family Scolopendridae. [2] It was first described from Zanzibar, as Eucorybas Grandidieri [sic] by Hippolyte Lucas in 1864. [3] The species range is in eastern Africa, in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. [2]
Scolopendra morsitans was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his book 10th edition of Systema Naturae in 1758 and has since retained its original scientific name. [15] The species was nominated as the type species of the centipede genus Scolopendra in a submission to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature in 1955 which was approved two years later.
Schendylidae is a family of soil centipedes in the superfamily Himantarioidea and the order Geophilomorpha. [1] [2] These centipedes are found in the Americas, the Palearctic region, Africa, Madagascar, Australia, and southeast Asia, and also on some Pacific islands. [3] This family was first proposed by the American biologist Orator F. Cook in ...
Alipes is a genus of bark centipedes in the family Scolopendridae, found in Africa. [2] [3] [4] Alipes get their unique name from their leaf-like legs. [5] Species
Centipedes are elongated segmented animals with one pair of legs per body segment. All centipedes are venomous and can inflict painful stings, injecting their venom through pincer-like appendages known as forcipules or toxicognaths, which are actually modified legs instead of fangs. Despite the name, no species of centipede has exactly 100 legs ...
Scolopocryptopidae is a family of blind centipedes in the order Scolopendromorpha. [1] The number of leg-bearing segments is fixed at 23 for species in this family, which distinguishes the species in this family from all other centipede species. [2] [3] This family includes more than 90 species. [4]
S. heros is found in northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, from New Mexico and Arizona in the west to Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisiana in the east. Although this species is commonly referred to as the "giant desert centipede" because of its presence in the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts, and other arid and semi-arid habitats, S. heros is also found in rocky woodland areas, such ...
Scolopendra subspinipes is a species of very large centipede found throughout southeastern Asia. One of the most widespread and common species in the genus Scolopendra, it is also found on virtually all land areas around and within the Indian Ocean, all of tropical and subtropical Asia from Russia to the islands of Malaysia and Indonesia, Australia, South and Central America, the Caribbean ...