ID of a native centipede of North-East N. America

[Frank]

Hello everyone, I found a few centipedes native of Montreal's region (Quebec, Canada) yesterday and I wanted to know if anyone could give an ID out of the informations I have.

He was about 1" long without the antennas. My friend said that he never saw any doing more than 1 1/2". His body and antennas were red and his legs were orange-yellowish. He looked like the HongKong centipede but like I said, his legs were orange-yellowish. Here's the pic of the HongKong centipede: http://www.invertepet.com/images/cent_HK.jpg

I kept one but it died in the night, I totally forgot to give humidity to the little guy. My friend kept 2, and he gave them humidity and they're doing fine.


Thanks, Frank

 

[Code Monkey]

My guess would be some species of Lithobius, aka stone centipedes. Adults are between 1" to 2", colored generally like a reddish Scolopendra.

Here's a selection of Googled images of Lithobius species

 

[Frank]

You are right Code, I thought stone and house centipedes were the same.

They really looks like these: http://www.gardensafari.net/duizendpoten/lithobius_forficatus.jpg


Thanks again, Frank