House Centipede
Scutigera coleoptrata
Animalia
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 3-7 yrs
- Size
- Small
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Activity
- Nocturnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Temperate forest
- Range
- Mediterranean region
- Movement
- Running
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Speed
- Status
- Common
About
The house centipede can sprint at up to 1.5 feet per second — the fastest of any centipede — using 15 pairs of banded legs that grow progressively longer toward the tail, with the rearmost pair trailing like a second set of antennae.
Life cycle
- 1.subadultA near-adult myriapod adds body segments and pairs of legs with each molt, approaching its full count.
- 2.adultFully grown, with the full adult count of segments and legs.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Chilopoda
- Order
- Scutigeromorpha
- Family
- Scutigeridae
- Genus
- Scutigera
- Species
- Scutigera coleoptrata