Paris cryptops
The Paris cryptops is a small centipede that hides under stones, logs and dead leaves. It hurries about in the dark, hunting tiny creatures. Like the rest of its family, it has no eyes at all.
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It is about 3 centimetres long or a bit more.
It has no eyes and finds its way by touch and smell.
Scientists can tell it apart from its cousins by the tiny teeth on its last pair of legs.
It keeps growing and changing its skin even after it is grown up: it has three teenage stages and seven grown-up stages.
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?Where does the Paris cryptops live?
Under stones, logs and leaf litter in Britain, Ireland, central Europe and Canada.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cryptops parisi
- Group
- Centipedes and millipedes
- Family
- Cryptopidae
- Classification
- Chilopoda > Scolopendromorpha > Cryptopidae
- Lives on
- Europe, North America
Where the facts come from
- Cryptops parisi (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Jörg Spelda. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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