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Ok so hello fellow hobbyists, I know I wrote here a thread fairly recently but I need your help
So you may remember my centipede that I refered to as „Lithobius cf. forficatus“ well somebody on other platform told me that it might infact be Lithobius melanops, after checking the species on the internet (informations about it's habitat, distribution etc.) and comparing the photos of Lithobius melanops to my centipede I came to the conclusion that my centipede could very well be L. melanops and not L. forficatus (also my pede is kind of small for L. forficatus, it is probably not matured yet but it still doesn't look like it will grow to the size that Lithobius forficatus does)
Other informations : My centipede also made a small tunnel system underground inside of it's (old) enclousure,
He/she also probably molted but Iam not really sure about that, tho it didn't ate for a long time and when it ate again he/she was lighter in colour (as you can see on the pictures) and when I counted the segments it had more of them so it probably did,
Due to it's size Iam not feeding it a live prey as I don't have prey that small (he/she is about 15 mm long without antene and terminal legs but this was measured before the supposed molting so it might have grown one or two milimeteres more) so Iam feeding it only pre-killed cricket nymphs (Acheta domesticus) or fly larvae (it ate the whole fly larvae but when I gave it cricket nymph it only ate head, maybe he/she was full and just didn't wanted to eat more as the only time I fed it a fly larvae was after I caught him/her so it might have been hungrier then, but I think it's an interesting observation that it's worthy of mention nontheless)
The centipede was wild caught in my apartment on 4th January
On the first 3 picture you can see my centipede after supposed molting and on the other 3 pictures you can see my centipede when I caught him/her
So you may remember my centipede that I refered to as „Lithobius cf. forficatus“ well somebody on other platform told me that it might infact be Lithobius melanops, after checking the species on the internet (informations about it's habitat, distribution etc.) and comparing the photos of Lithobius melanops to my centipede I came to the conclusion that my centipede could very well be L. melanops and not L. forficatus (also my pede is kind of small for L. forficatus, it is probably not matured yet but it still doesn't look like it will grow to the size that Lithobius forficatus does)
Other informations : My centipede also made a small tunnel system underground inside of it's (old) enclousure,
He/she also probably molted but Iam not really sure about that, tho it didn't ate for a long time and when it ate again he/she was lighter in colour (as you can see on the pictures) and when I counted the segments it had more of them so it probably did,
Due to it's size Iam not feeding it a live prey as I don't have prey that small (he/she is about 15 mm long without antene and terminal legs but this was measured before the supposed molting so it might have grown one or two milimeteres more) so Iam feeding it only pre-killed cricket nymphs (Acheta domesticus) or fly larvae (it ate the whole fly larvae but when I gave it cricket nymph it only ate head, maybe he/she was full and just didn't wanted to eat more as the only time I fed it a fly larvae was after I caught him/her so it might have been hungrier then, but I think it's an interesting observation that it's worthy of mention nontheless)
The centipede was wild caught in my apartment on 4th January
On the first 3 picture you can see my centipede after supposed molting and on the other 3 pictures you can see my centipede when I caught him/her
