House Centipede: S2, dorsal

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Centipedes (Chilopoda)

Order:

House Centipedes (Scutigeromorpha)

Family:

House Centipede (Scutigeridae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

House Centipede (Allothereua maculata)

This Photo:

S2, dorsal

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
~20mm to ~23mm long (head & body, excluding legs, antennae, cerci, etc).
It is being parasitised by Velvet Mites, Chiggers, and Relatives (Infraorder Trombidia).

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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