Care sheet indepth info

[Brandon smith]

Scolopendra Longipes

 

[Scoly]

These can be kept like alternans, and depending on whether you accept the latest taxonomic revision they are the same thing.
Keep at high 20's during the day with a drop to low 20's at night, with decent amount of substrate as they burrow, not too dry and not too damp either.

Ps: please include more specific text in your thread titles, like the species or genus if applicable, or at least enough to identify it as relevant to centipedes or millipedes. The whole point of titles is to tell people what's in the thread without making them open it.

 

[Brandon smith]

These can be kept like alternans, and depending on whether you accept the latest taxonomic revision they are the same thing.
Keep at high 20's during the day with a drop to low 20's at night, with decent amount of substrate as they burrow, not too dry and not too damp either.

Ps: please include more specific text in your thread titles, like the species or genus if applicable, or at least enough to identify it as relevant to centipedes or millipedes. The whole point of titles is to tell people what's in the thread without making them open it.

Are Longipes and alternans different species ?

 

[Scoly]

Longipes was synonymised with alternans at some point, making them the same species, but then longipes was resurrected into its own species in 2016 here: https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4111.1.1

My understanding is that has since been challenged, but I can't find where. The most up to date database on centipedes, myriatrix, currently lists longipes as invalid: http://myriatrix.myspecies.info/myriatrix/scolopendra-longipes but no links as to why it interprets it as invalid despite being resurrected. Perhaps the maintainer doesn't acknowledge that paper or simply hasn't updated that entry.

You have to remember that there isn't one universally accepted truth on taxonomy. Anyone can write a paper identifying, synonymising or reclassifying species. If it passes peer review it will be published in one or more journals, but that doesn't make it correct, or accepted by every other taxonomist working in that area. The official databases (like gbif) are often way out of date, and you often the smaller, more narrow in scope databases (like myriatrix) are far more current and actively maintained.

But being ahead of the latest taxonomic revisions won't help you with a care sheet, which likely doesn't exactly exist for this species. Your best bet is to figure out where your specimen is from, look at the weather data, and get an idea of the terrain on google maps, find any instances you can on iNaturalist.com to see them in-situ, and let that data guide you. Though ultimately they can be kept much like any other tropical centipede: warm, half damp, and with decent depth substrate.