pede found in house

[iturnrocks]

Found this little guy running across the ceiling today at home in Kansas.

Im guessing S. polymorpha, I tried to catch it alive, but once he fell to the carpet and headed under the couch i tried too hard.

The USB toy microscope is really coming in handy

Here is a size comparison pic next to a US dime (10x).

(60x)

(200x) mandible

 

[Gigas]

he looks smooshed, Where did you get the microscope?

 

[iturnrocks]

he looks smooshed, Where did you get the microscope?

He is smooshed, i mentioned that in the post.

I do like these things, but im not so interested in finding an adult in my shoe.

Digital Blue QX5 at Meritline

 

[Gigas]

i gethered thats what u implied by tried to hard, the microscope looks pretty cool i may look into something similar

 

[cacoseraph]

i believe it's a lithobiomorpha, stone centipede

 

[iturnrocks]

i believe it's a lithobiomorpha, stone centipede

Thanks, I dont believe ive ever found one of those.

I did see a couple years ago in the wild what I thought was a baby S. heros, it looked identical in color, but was only about 1.5 inches long. Someone told me it may have been a different species.

 

[LongDucDong]

Thats a Lithobius spp of sorts. I keep one of these. Here is mine to compare to...

 

[cacoseraph]

there are two easy ways to tell lithos from scolos

1) litho always have 15 pairs of legs, only. scolos have 21 or 23 pairs of legs

2) lithos have every other body segment HEAVILY compressed(an adaption for running quickly), scolos have the every other compression but to a much less pronounced degree

oh, lol

3) if it's much past 2" it's probably a scolo. if it is 6" long and eating a frog or something.. definitely a scolo

 

[iturnrocks]

Thanks for all the help- I learned a new pede today