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Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans
This is a provisional identification.
Found here inside house in the equatorial tropics of northern New Guinea. The house is in a residential area with yards, gardens and patches of disturbed remnant forest.
I'm glad there were no dishes in the sink!
Spotted on Dec 20, 2012
Submitted on Feb 24, 2013
2 Comments
Thanks. Well maybe, one without the classic fully "red" head. I added a zoom of the head by the way.
This seems like a Chinese red-headed yellow-leg (Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans). (Wish you could have gotten a better shot of the head).
I had read up about this 4 years back, when I picked up a similar one on a car trip to a very "wet" Mahabaleshwar, India. We spotted it on our way back, and after 2 weeks of searching the car, it finally decided to "appear" on my wife's head on a night drive!