Arizona house centipede
The Arizona house centipede is a speedy centipede with lots of long, thin legs. Outdoors it hides under stones and in hollow logs, but it often wanders into people's houses too. It is a smaller cousin of the common house centipede.
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It grows to only about 4 centimetres long, much smaller than the common house centipede.
Scientists first named it Cermatia linceci before it got the name it has today.
Its name honours Gideon Lincecum, a doctor who loved studying nature.
You can tell it apart from the common house centipede by the shape of its head and its colours.
Most asked questions about Arizona house centipede
?How big is the Arizona house centipede?
It grows to about 3.8 centimetres long.
?Why is it in my house?
In the wild it lives under stones and logs, but it often wanders into houses.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Scutigera linceci
- Group
- Centipedes and millipedes
- Family
- Scutigeridae
- Classification
- Chilopoda > Scutigeromorpha > Scutigeridae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Scutigera linceci (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 (c) Sue Carnahan, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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