Scolopendra cingulata
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Chilopoda |
| Order: | Scolopendromorpha |
| Family: | Scolopendridae |
| Genus: | Scolopendra |
| Species: | S. cingulata
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| Binomial name | |
| Scolopendra cingulata Latreille, 1829
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Scolopendra cingulata, also known as Megarian banded centipede,[2] and the Mediterranean banded centipede,[3] is a species of centipede,[4] and "the most common scolopendromorph species in the Mediterranean area".[5]
Description
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The species has alternating bands of black and yellow-gold.[6] At approximately 15–18 centimetres (5.9–7.1 in), Scolopendra cingulata is one of the smallest species in the family Scolopendridae.
Its venom is also not as toxic as that of other scolopendrid centipedes.[3]
Distribution
[edit | edit source]Widely distributed, this species can be found throughout southern Europe, including Portugal and around the Mediterranean Sea, in such countries as Spain, France, Italy, Albania, Serbia, Croatia, Israel, and Greece, around the Black Sea in South Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, as well as parts of North Africa.[3][7] It also has small relict populations in Austria and Hungary.[8]
Habitat
[edit | edit source]Scolopendra cingulata is a burrowing animal, preferring dark, damp environments such as beneath logs and in leaf litter.[3]
Diet
[edit | edit source]Scolopendra cingulata is an opportunistic carnivore. It will attack and consume almost any animal that is not larger than itself; this includes insects and small lizards.[3]
References
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- ^ Digimorph - Scolopendra cingulata (centipede)
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- ^ Megarian banded centipede (Scolopendra cingulata) Escolopendra Archived 2012-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
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- ^ de Jong, Y. et al. (2014) Fauna Europaea - all European animal species on the web. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e4034. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e4034.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
- Naturdata's file of Scolopendra cingulata in Portugal
- Interactive images
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