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Vietnamese Giant Centipede

Scolopendra subspinipes

Classification

Scolopendra subspinipes is a species of very large centipede found throughout southeastern Asia. One of the most widespread and common species in the genus Scolopendra, it is also found on virtually all land areas around and within the Indian Ocean, all of tropical and subtropical Asia from Russia to the islands of Malaysia and Indonesia, Australia, South and Central America, the Caribbean islands, and possibly parts of the southern United States, but how much of this range is natural and how much due to human introduction is unclear. With a wide geographic range and numerous color variations,…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 396France · 78United Kingdom · 15Brazil · 6Netherlands · 1