Australian house centipede
The Australian house centipede is a pale brown centipede with dark markings and very long, thin legs. It has long feelers at the front and just as long feelers at the back. That makes it tricky to tell which end is its head.
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Fun facts
Its body has 15 segments, with one pair of legs on each, so it has 30 legs.
It is the most common centipede of its kind in southern Australia.
In houses it likes damp, stuffy rooms that do not get much fresh air.
Its body is covered in lots of tiny hairs.
Most asked questions about Australian house centipede
?How many legs does it have?
It has 15 pairs of long legs, which makes 30.
?How big is the Australian house centipede?
Its body is about 2 to 2.5 centimetres long, without the legs.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Allothereua maculata
- Group
- Centipedes and millipedes
- Family
- Scutigeridae
- Classification
- Chilopoda > Scutigeromorpha > Scutigeridae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- House centipede
Where the facts come from
- Allothereua maculata (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 Probable_Allothereua_maculata.jpg : Chris Bloke derivative work: Stemonitis ( talk ). CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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