Centipede With Really Long Legs
Its really a beautiful thing to watch them move their very essence a ripple of life their tiny muscles firing off in order like a long line of miniature Rockettes.
Centipede with really long legs. A dark reddish-brown body paired with yellow legs this centipede grows up to 2 inches long. More than 1 inch long fully grown. Looks something like a centipede but only has 30 long almost spider like legs.
Sometimes marked with three dark stripes. Plus they are quite small overall. The largest centipedes are in the genus Scolopendra and may grow to as much as 6 15 cm long.
House centipedes Scutigera are common arthropods with long flattened segmented bodies with one pair of legs per segment. House centipedes are the really fast ones that have really long legs that sort of make them look like evil feathers running around on the walls. Its about 1 to 15 inches long.
Australia currently has 128 species of centipede out of a worldwide fauna of between 2500 and 3000 species. The house centipede a species that often invades buildings has long legs that enable it to run rapidly. They have a pair of elongated mandibles and two pairs of maxillaeThe first pair of maxillae form the lower lip and bear short palpsThe first pair of limbs stretch forward from the body to cover the remainder of the mouth.
It has a black strip down its back. It looked different than regular centipedes with rudimentary eyes and legs but long tail divided in two equal parts double tail and segmented body. 15 pairs of long jointed legs that are striped.
One of the major fears with any small critter is its ability to bite or sting. Remember they have 30 legs a pair for each body segment and these legs are long and nimble. Their legs and antennae are shorter than those of the house centipede.
