what are some must have centipedes?

[thebugfreak]

Solomon Islands Centipede:
www.flickr.com/photos/14734284@N02/4795271448/

1st instar baby:
www.flickr.com/photos/14734284@N02/4795271404/in/photostream/

NOTE: As these babies molted into 2nd, 3rd and 4th instar, they looked identical to the Papau pede pic.

I'm saying they "looked". They might be 100% taxonomically Scolopendra s. subspinipes or they might be a different species. This needs to be studied and confirmed, which, nobody is currently doing that, so in the mean time for Joe the hobbyist, Steve the importer and John the pet store owner, we can call it Scolopendra sp. "Papua". (Some of us can hedge our bets in the background though and bet it's a geographic variant of Scolopendra s. subspinipes though.

This threads reminds me of the old debate between splitters and lumpers.

what ARE splitters and lumpers? never herd of those. haha..

thanks for clearing it up for me. its a pity that they dont stay like that throughout. sometimes, i wish the colors for when some Ts and pedes are slings and the colors when they turn to an adult were reversed.

 

[xenesthis]

Scolopendra "splitter" and Scolopendra "lumper"

>what ARE splitters and lumpers? never herd of those.

Scolopendra "splitter" is HUGE and Scolopendra "lumper" has amazing color.

Haha...nah, splitter and lumper is a reference to those you debate in taxonomy about what is a species, sub-species and geographic variant. Splitters like to make everything newly discovered into a new species. Lumpers prefer to make the same into geographic variants unless their are some major taxonomic differences. I follow the lumper philosophy. This topic has been argued on AB many times. Review the archives.