Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: small "Cacata" and large Pede

[Bigboy]

This is a "Cacata". My guess is some sort of Pampho. It was found under a small pile of broken concrete.

There was another I found in the house I was staying that I released outside which had a velvet black body and a fiery red rump with long hairs covering the abdomen but as I watched it scurry off into the night I remembered that I had forgotten to get a picture. It was long gone before I got my camera.

Here is the rather large scolopendra I caught a few hours drive away at a farm near Via Altagracia where my father grew up. It was also under broken and discarded concrete.

 

[Crysta]

so lucky, I wish I could see these in the wild. I would be so excited! Sometime in the future I hope.

 

[Terry D]

Bigboy, I can always dig the field trip photo threads. My guess on the t is Phormictopus, although don't know the spp well enough if they crawled up and bit me. Thanks for sharing.

Terry

 

[JC]

Phormictopes canceroides for me.

 

[Thorsten Trapp]

i think it is
Phormictopus atrichomatus and a small Scolopender alternans!

best regards

 

[super-pede]

judging by where you found it,I would say Sc. alternans.

S-P

 

[robd]

Awesome stuff. Thank you for sharing this. I can't wait to go visit the D.R. again.