Red centipedes - Red centipedes

...They are found in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions, and are often brown, blue-green or dark green in color. In Japan, the common species in the south of Honshu are the Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans (illustration), which has a brown head and a blue-black back and grows to 15 cm in length, and the Scolopendra subspinipes japonica , which has a dark green head and back and grows to about 8 cm, but the Scolopendra subspinipes family includes the orange-yellow, eyeless Scolopendra with 23 pairs of legs, which live almost throughout the country. [Shinohara Keizaburo]...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "red crabs" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…熱帯，亜熱帯から暖帯地方に分布し，褐色，青緑色，暗緑色のものが多い。日本には頭が茶褐色で背が青黒く，体長15cmになるトビズムカデScolopendra subspinipes mutilans（イラスト），頭も背も暗緑色で約8cmに達するアオズムカデS.s.japonicaが本州以南にふつうであるが，メクラムカデ科には橙黄色で歩肢23対，無眼のアカムカデ類がほぼ全国に生息している。【篠原 圭三郎】。…

※「アカムカデ類」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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