''Scolopendra angulata'' is a species of

centipede Centipedes (from New Latin , "hundred", and Latin , " foot") are predatory arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda (Ancient Greek , ''kheilos'', lip, and New Latin suffix , "foot", describing the forcipules) of the subphylum Myriapoda, an ...

commonly found in

Barbados Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a population of about 287,000 (2019 estimate ...

. They are also found in

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in ...

and neighbouring countries in South America and the Caribbean such as Ecuador and Colombia. There are three subspecies; ''Scolopendra angulata angulata'' (Newport, 1844)'', Scolopendra angulata explorans'' (Chamberlin, 1914)'','' and ''Scolopendra angulata moojeni'' (Bücherl, 1943). The latter subspecies is excluded by some sources. ''S. s. explorans'' was originally classified by Chamberlin as ''Scolopendra explorans,'' and was only proposed a subspecies of ''S. angulata'' by Bücherl in 1942 ''.''

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*https://eol.org/pages/1033177 *https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/734768-Scolopendra-angulata/browse_photos angulata Arthropods of South America Fauna of Barbados Arthropods of the Caribbean Fauna of Venezuela Fauna of Colombia Fauna of Ecuador {{Myriapoda-stub