Subject: Caterpillar
Location: Araluen NSW 2622
September 30, 2016 2:52 am
Please can you help me identify this centipede
Signature: Glen
Centipede: Scolopendra laeta
Dear Glen,
The longitudinal striping on your Centipede is quite distinctive, and the closest match we could locate is Scolopendra laeta which we found on FlickR, and the individual depicted also has blue legs. We then found additional images on Arachoboards, and it seems the species has variable coloration, but the longitudinal striping seems a constant.
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Location: Araluen, New South Wales, Australia
This is indeed Scolopendra laeta, however they are not a “giant” centipede. They max out at around 5-6cm
Thanks for the confirmation. We have deleted the word “giant” from the posting, though somewhere, sometime, we believe we found Giant Centipede used to describe the genus Scolopendra.