Allothereua maculata at Brogo, NSW

1 House Centipede at Brogo, NSW

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Identification history

Scutigeridae sp. (family)	28 Sep 2016	KimPullen
Scutigeridae sp. (family)	28 Sep 2016	KimPullen
Unidentified	28 Sep 2016	MaxCampbell

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Centipede - Hairy Mary (house centipede)

7 comments

JackieMiles wrote:

4 Oct 2016

Hi Kim,
Did this critter subsequently get ID'd by you as Scutigera coleoptera? I lost the thread a bit. If so, can you re-ID the sighting so the photo becomes available for uploading into that species slot in the ID pages, not just in Scutigeridae?

KimPullen wrote:

5 Oct 2016

Hi Jackie,
I did leave a comment that it looked more like the native Allothereua maculata than the introduced 'House centipede' Scutigera coleoptrata, but for some reason the comment didn't appear. But I don't know these creatures well enough to be sure of a species identification.

JackieMiles wrote:

6 Oct 2016

Hi Kim, Yep, well forget the links in future then. I can google the name anyway. Checked images for both and they do look awfully similar. In fact it appeared in one case the same image was coming up under both names! So we'll have to leave it undetermined I guess. But Allothereua is in Scutigeridae hey, so I can stick the photo up for that in the ID pages?

KimPullen wrote:

6 Oct 2016

Yes Jackie, I'd say go ahead and put the photo up in the ID pages. It's a great shot - better than any others I saw online!

JackieMiles wrote:

7 Oct 2016

Max has a lot of fun tweaking the images to get them nice and bright and sharp. I tend to just put my plant shots and fungi shots in as they come out of the camera, but he likes to play first.

PaulWhitington wrote:

19 Mar 2019

I used this key to identify this one to species level
http://www.ento.csiro.au/biology/centipedes/key1.html
However, I note a statement at the beginning of the Scutigeromorpha part that this taxon is in need of revision. So it might be prudent to leave it at Scutigeridae.

PaulWhitington wrote:

19 Mar 2019

I note that this one looks much more like the images of Allothereua maculata on ALA than my suggestion of Thereuopoda longicornis. So it seems like my keying out was defective in any event.

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