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Arizona house centipede

Scutigera linceci

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) samuel_s22, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 8, February 7, March 8, April 16, May 10, June 6, July 4, August 5, September 5, October 7, November 7, December 7.
United States167
Texas86
Arizona59
Oklahoma17
Mexico15
New Mexico5
Costa Rica5
Sonora3
Provincia Puntarenas3
Jalisco2

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassCentipedes · Chilopoda
OrderLong-legged Centipedes · Scutigeromorpha
FamilyTypical House Centipedes · Scutigeridae
GenusScutigera

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Arizona house centipede with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.