DETAILS
- Discipline
NH: ZOOLOGY: INVERTEBRATES: MYRIAPODS (CENTIPEDES, MILLIPEDES)
- Scientific Name
Lithobius forficatus
- Common Name
Brown centipede
- Date Collected
4 August 1988
- Place Collected
Scotland, Argyll, Doire Darach, (place collected)
- Age
adult
- Form
wet preserved
- Description
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The brown centipede (Lithobius forficatus) is one of the commonest centipedes in Britain. They have fifteen pairs of legs with one pair on each body segment. Centipedes are predators and will hunt down other small invertebrates in the leaf litter and under rotting logs where they live.
This species has a tendency to run very quickly when disturbed which makes it easy to identify as other closely related species will move much more slowly.
These eleven specimens were collected in Argyll, Scotland and are preserved in spirit. - ID Number
Z.2008.50.2
- Location
In storage
- Terms