Strigamia acuminata

Strigamia acuminata, commonly called the shorter red centipede, is a centipede in the family Linotaeniidae in the order Geophilomorpha.^[3]

Strigamia acuminata
Photographed in Derbyshire, England
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Chilopoda
Order:	Geophilomorpha
Family:	Linotaeniidae
Genus:	Strigamia
Species:	S. acuminata
Binomial name
Strigamia acuminata (Leach, 1816)[a]
Synonyms[2]
Scolioplanes microdon Attems, 1904 Scolioplanes brevidentatus Verhoeff, 1928 Scolioplanes crinitus Attems, 1929 Scolioplanes pachypus Verhoeff, 1935 Scolioplanes mediterraneus Verhoeff, 1928 Scolioplanes silvaenigrae Verhoeff, 1937

Description

Strigamia acuminata is red-brown in colour.^[4] This species can reach 40 mm in length.^[5] Males of this species have 37 to 41 pairs of legs, females have 39 to 43.^[5] Like other Strigamia, it has a prominent tooth at the base of the poison claw, and large widely scattered coxal pores on the last legs. The specific name acuminata means "pointed, sharp."^[1][6]

Habitat

Strigamia acuminata lives in woodland habitats in Ireland, southern England and Wales (common in Leicestershire and Rutland),^[4] and elsewhere in western and central Europe.^[7] It is also recorded in Canada.^[8]

Notes

1. Several sources incorrectly give the date of Leach's description of S. acuminata as 1815.^[1]