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Hari Har Raj Kalingarayar
29-07-2009, 08:43 AM
I've seen these crawling around mainly during the Monsoons. If anyone can help identifying this insect, i'll be thankful. I'm told it packs in quite a sting.

Bibhav Behera
29-07-2009, 08:54 AM
Seeing it for the first time... Seems to be some kind of centipede... Not sure...

Abhishek Jamalabad
29-07-2009, 11:02 AM
Long legged centipede. Don't know about this species, the similar ones in south America are Scutigera species. It's venomous. It's not an insect, it's from a family called the myriapods ("many-legs" in Greek). Closely related to the insect family.
Wish I would get to see these in real life...

AB Apana
29-07-2009, 03:26 PM
Well it does look dangerous.

Apana

Abhishek Jamalabad
29-07-2009, 04:27 PM
Yes this is Scutigera coleoptrata :)
More info here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata

Hari Har Raj Kalingarayar
29-07-2009, 11:40 PM
Thanks for identifying the insect Abhishek.
Regards,
Hari


Yes this is Scutigera coleoptrata :)
More info here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata