Scolopendra

There is an Asian species, Scolopendra subspinipes, that can be dangerous as an adult, but a small one is not going to have the capability to deliver enough venom to kill a human.

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He caught the Scolopendra gigantea in a plastic container and brought it to Britain's Natural History Museum.

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In _Scolopendra_ also there is a similar transformation of two pairs of legs into auxiliary jaws.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

Representations of a centipede (probably a species of _Scolopendra_) occur in the Dresden Codex and in several others examined.

Animal Figures in the Maya Codices 1915

Scolopendra or praying mantis furnish the same result.

The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

[Footnote 1: _Scolopendra pallipes_.] _The Fish-insect_.

Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836

The centipede is some Scolopendra species, isn't it? this small snake had eaten, whole, a centipede 140 mm long.

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A small _Curculio_ was frequent, and I found _Scolopendra, _ ants and earthworms, on sunny exposures as high as 15,500 feet.]

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864