Arizona or Sonoran Giant Desert Centipede (Scolopendra heros): Northern Mexico, through the Southwestern and South-Central United States. Body segments range from brown or dark …

Special Adaptations: The Giant Desert Centipede can give a very painful bite. It is aposematically colored, to warn off potential predators, and a number of color variants are known in the species.

Colorado Chilopod of Interest sert Centiped (Tiger Centipede) Figure 1. The common desert centipede, Scolopendra polymorpha. Scientific Name: Scolopendra polymorpha Wood Class: …

This large species is the giant desert centipede (Scolopendra heros) which occurs across much of Arizona and the southwest. The common desert centipede (Scolopendra polymorpha) is also …

The most problematic centipede in Utah is the house centipede, Scutigera coleoptrata. This species is 1-11⁄2# long and has a yellow-grey body with three brown, longitudinal stripes on …

Scolopendra gigantea is the world’s largest species of tropical centipede, with a documented length of up to about 30cm (Shelley and Kiser, 2000). They have flattened and unequally …

Centipede, Giant Desert Scolopendra heros May be 8” long, has 42 legs and is found under rocks and dead vegetation. Bite is painful with swelling. Poisonous.