Centipede

Indonesia 2004
Chinese Redhead Centipede
Scolopendra subspinipes
(Scolopendridae)


Centipede inhabits wet materials floors with many cavities. Usual times it inhabits bottoms of a stone, but it is nocturnal and loiter around at the night. It eat an insect or a spider in flesh-eating. When a creature of bait touches a body of a centipede, turning around, it attack them and bite them with "a poisonous chin" and paralyze it.
Even if there are from 20cm to 15cm, and the length watches centipede worldwide, it is a maximum-scale centipede. 21 pairs of gnathopeds have metamere 21 of a trunk as a characteristic of a body, and it is different from an insect, and there is only a stemma by four on each side.

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