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are there any centipedes with long legs like house centipedes but also long body like other centipedes?

i've been falling down the centipede love pit. theyre so beautiful and sweet😩 and the way they move is so joyous. planning on a centipede tattoo when i have the money for it <3

unrelated but thank you for all the detailed bug photos, fantastic for art reference.

short answer: no

long answer w/ centipede phylogeny: below

there are 5 orders in the class Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha, Lithobiomorpha, Craterostigmomorpha, Scolopendromorpha, and Geophilomorpha.

tree:

scutigeromorphs are the basalmost centipedes, but have a number of traits that clearly weren’t present in the common ancestor of all centipedes, including the hypersegmented legs and unpaired dorsal spiracles. 15 pairs of legs, anamorphic growth, no maternal care

lithobiomorphs are the next to split off. 15 pairs of legs, anamorphic growth, no maternal care

craterostigmomorphs are fairly similar to look at but the two living species form their own order, which is restricted to Tasmania and NZ and therefore I have no photos of my own to show you! they also have 15 pairs of legs & are anamorphic but start with 12 so only grow more legs in a single molt, maternal care

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Craterostigmus crabilli

Craterostigmus crabilli from Southland District, Southland, New Zealand on February 12, 2003 at 01:40 PM by Gonzalo Giribet. Craterostigmus

scolopendromorphs are the big, flashy centipedes of the tropics but also contain some smaller temperate species as well. 21-23 leg pairs depending on species (a few oddballs with duplications), epimorphic growth, maternal care

geophilomorpha are the most speciose centipede group, and are typically very long and thin. leg count varies between species and usually sexes (total range from 27 to 191 pairs), epimorphic growth, maternal care

the closest any epimorphic centipede gets to the hypersegmented condition in scutigeromorphs is Newportia, a genus of scolopocryptopid scolopendromorphs whose terminal legs are highly segmented, probably serving a sensory function but without the prehensile grip of scutigeromorphs.

Cermatobius lithombiomorphs do get very leggy but given that they still have 15 leg pairs they just sort of look like flat scutigeromorphs to me

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Genus Cermatobius

Cermatobius from 中国浙江省杭州市 on May 22, 2022 at 12:03 PM by Li Jianbo

Got 4 new species of bugs at the repticon the other day

These 3 hissing roaches

An Asian forest scorpion

An amplypygi

And this Vietnam centipede (im gonna add more stuff to the tank, I know it's a bit bare) (like live plants and stuff)

Today I repotted two of my plants

I think this is a Chinese evergreen? I don't really know, I got it for like a dollar at a thrift store or something like that a few moths ago

For a while it was looking perfectly fine but it grew a lot and so it became root bound

Here it is back in November

And here it is now, I cut off all the yellow leaves and loosened up the roots

Hopefully it starts to look better

The other plant I repotted was my pothos because the soil was kind of gross looking

Here it is now

I want to try to grow it up a moss pole or something

13 more days until I buy a bunch of bugs

Baby's first hornworm