Tanzanian Electric Blue Centipede!

[edesign]

forum search results for "predatory mites":

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/search.php?searchid=871627

your answer should lie within

 

[ragnew]

Nice looking Pede!

There are several different online sites that sell the Hypoaspis miles (pred. mites), but I'd probably just go with the drying out method.

I recently purchased predatory mites and each and every one of them came in dead. I don't think I'll ever buy them again. It was too expensive to risk the same thing happening a second time.

Just my two pennies.

 

[cacoseraph]

Spracles visible on T7 and T8 so it must by Ethmostigmus, Rhysida or Alluropus.
This last one in known only from Vietnam.
Rhysida has cribriform spiracles and floor of the atrium of spiracle with raised humps.
For me it looks like some Ethmostigmus spec, but only known from Africa species of Ethmostigmus is E. trigonopodus, which AFAIK has 4 bold antenomers, this one on the photo has only 3.
But I can be wrong.

looks like Ethmostigmus to me, too. the terminal legs look like my trigonopodus


regarding antennomeres: remember, if a centipede regenerates an antenna then the antennomere counts can get messed up. also remember, some species have antennomeres that are "half" sparsely and thickly hirsute. i think E. trigo' is one that has half hirsuteness


i think justGreg has well passed me on centipede knowledge. nice, dude