For Steven.

[Lateralus]

Hey mate, told you i would get these some day. ;P

Cheers to Dan for the suggestions.

 

[Christoph]

Great pics!
How big is it?

 

[Lateralus]

Great pics!
How big is it?

Thanks, its around 5.5" excluding the terminal legs.

Cheers,
Damien.

 

[CedrikG]

oh wow what a nice coloration, nice stripe on the leg too, totally awesome pede you have there mate, lucky one

 

[Steven]

hehehehe

nice one dude !!!



BTW: Awsome Pictures as usual
:clap: :worship: :clap: :worship:


*edit:
ow yeah:
when are ya gonna catch some local centipedes and show us some pix of those ? :drool:

 

[Randolph XX()]

wondering are those stripes legs belong to Scolopendra? looks kinda different

 

[Steven]

wondering are those stripes legs belong to Scolopendra? looks kinda different

scolopendra = 100%
picture #2 -> look at the headplate = overlapping the 1st Tergite

subspinipes, i would say 90%,...

 

[Randolph XX()]

opps i typed it wrong Steven, i was going to type Scolopendra subspinipes
damn note book keyboard
cuz the legs looks longer and lankier than those viet and multilans
maybe it's just the "eyesick trick" of the stripes

 

[danread]

opps i typed it wrong Steven, i was going to type Scolopendra subspinipes
damn note book keyboard
cuz the legs looks longer and lankier than those viet and multilans
maybe it's just the "eyesick trick" of the stripes

Yes, but that's because both the pedes you mentioned are different subspecies of subspinipes. The Vietnamese pedes (as far as we can tell) are Scolopendra subspinipes dehaani and the mutilans are obviously Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans. I think the only true S. subspinipes i have in my collection are the Stripe legs and the Malaysian and Javan pedelings i have, and they have very similar terminal leg structure.

Cheers,

 

[Randolph XX()]

Thanx Dan
that's really interesting
speaking of stripe legs
according to the paper http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/...902102-113452&filename=etd-0902102-113452.pdf
there are also S.s.subspnipes in Taiwan, and it looks similar to my fd's pede i've posted
in http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=7434&page=2
which looks kinda "multilans"(known as thr brownish-head multilans from Taiwan), but with attitude and sort like true subspinipes from the paper, also from the same locality as the paper descibed
or might be another varient , Also has stripes at the last 3 pair of legs
and my fd told me they also eat beetle jellies!

 

[Steven]

which looks kinda "multilans"(known as thr brownish-head multilans from Taiwan), but with attitude and sort like true subspinipes from the paper, also from the same locality as the paper descibed
or might be another varient , Also has stripes at the last 3 pair of legs

yeah i know which ones you're talking about,..those are a real pain in the ...
never had the chance to take good pictures of those or checking out their prefemurs,... nasty things
i'm also still confused between s.mutilans and s.subspinipes :?

 

[TimV]

Papua New Guinea

When I lived there we had a centipede which burnt grass underneath it. Does anyone know what kind it is? I suppose it gives off an acid?

 

[Lateralus]

hehehehe

nice one dude !!!



BTW: Awsome Pictures as usual
:clap: :worship: :clap: :worship:


*edit:
ow yeah:
when are ya gonna catch some local centipedes and show us some pix of those ? :drool:

Thanks for the compliments bro! I’ll be going hunting this Sunday so I’ll see what I can dig up.

Btw, really interesting information on the different subspecies of subspinipes, my friend will be going to Thailand soon so I hope he'll be able to get me some S. subspinipes dehaani. :drool:

Oh yea, did you get the pm I sent you last week?

Cheers,
Damien.

 

[Steven]

Oh yea, did you get the pm I sent you last week?
Cheers,
Damien.

guess i missed it
:8o PM me again if it was urgent

’ll be going hunting this Sunday so I’ll see what I can dig up.

don't get bit would love to see some locals :worship:

 

[Steven]

When I lived there we had a centipede which burnt grass underneath it. Does anyone know what kind it is? I suppose it gives off an acid?

never heard from it,... are ya sure the grass was burned by the centipede ??? :? i know some specie can give off a smelly odour,... but as far as i know not such "acid" as milipedes can give off :? :? :?
(which i also would find "weird" to burn of grass,....)

intresting,... but i can't give a straight answer to that

 

[Randolph XX()]

never heard from it,... are ya sure the grass was burned by the centipede ??? :? i know some specie can give off a smelly odour,... but as far as i know not such "acid" as milipedes can give off :? :? :?
(which i also would find "weird" to burn of grass,....)

intresting,... but i can't give a straight answer to that

ya
i remember i brought a multilans(not sure about it, got stripes on boday and brown head) to school when i was 14
as soon as i opened the box to check it, the smell spreaded, and i was in deep trouble...........
then i rangled the pede on my arm try to convince my teach i know what i was doing(which was pretty stupid, but that pede was amazingly docile, or it just see my arm as surface?), but stiil been sent to the princple and get grounded for few weeks.......

 

[bistrobob85]

Hey Incubu5, those two pics you posted are the two best scolopendra pics i have seen ever!! Congratulations on your beast, those colours are outstandingly amazing!!

phil.

 

[Lateralus]

Hey Incubu5, those two pics you posted are the two best scolopendra pics i have seen ever!! Congratulations on your beast, those colours are outstandingly amazing!!

phil.

Hey Phil. Thank you for the kind words but you flatter me. Steven and Dan take better pictures imho.

Cheers,
Damien.

 

[bistrobob85]

So is that it?! Nobody really knows the ssp. of this incredible 'pede?!? I wish i could tell but i'm not experienced enough... Maybe i'm wrong but i've never seen a S.subpinipes De haani anywhere close to those leg colors... I would be REALLY curious to know to which subspecie it belongs to...

phil.

 

[Lateralus]

So is that it?! Nobody really knows the ssp. of this incredible 'pede?!? I wish i could tell but i'm not experienced enough... Maybe i'm wrong but i've never seen a S.subpinipes De haani anywhere close to those leg colors... I would be REALLY curious to know to which subspecie it belongs to...

phil.

Phil, if you re-read the posts in the thread, specifically by Steven, Dan, and even on the picture itself, you'll notice that they all point to the same thing. The pede is most likely another colour / locality variation of Scolopendra subspinipes.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Damien.