''Scolopendra calcarata'' 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 ...
in the family
Scolopendridae
Scolopendridae (or, in older documents, Scolopendridæ) is a family of large centipedes ( class Chilopoda). Nearly all species in this family have four ocelli (simple eyes) on each side of the head and only 21 pairs of legs, but there are excepti ...
discovered in 1876.
References
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calcarata
Arthropods of Asia
Arthropods of Laos
Animals described in 1876