Giant Red Centipede

Description:

30cm.Biggest Iv'e seen.

Habitat:

Rainforest

Notes:

The giant red centipede, Scolopendra subspinipes Leach, 1815. is distributed in China, East Asia, S.E. Asia, including Thailand, and downwards to Australia. Centipedes (centi=100, ped=foot) are arthropods have between 15 and 191 pairs of legs, always an odd number.Generally called hundred-legged arthropods. Each body segment bears one pair of legs. The first pair of appendages modified to be poisonous claws.