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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Centipedes
  5. Soil Centipedes
  6. Garden Centipedes

family

Garden Centipedes

Geophilidae

Includes
19 native 1 introduced
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Compost Centipedes 7 native
  • Strigamia 5 native
  • Arenophilus 2 native
  • Pachymerium 1 native
  • Arctogeophilus 1 native
  • Taiyuna 1 native
  • Agathothus 1 native
  • Lionyx
  • Aphilodontinae
  • Garrina
  • Dignathodontinae
  • Zygona
  • Watophilus

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native garden centipedes All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Diamondback Soil Centipede Geophilus vittatus 1,163 observations
  • Strigamia bothriopus 381 observations
  • Strigamia bidens 96 observations
  • Taiyuna isantus 82 observations
  • Strigamia fusata 59 observations
  • Geophilus regnans 50 observations
  • Strigamia epileptica 48 observations
  • Geophilus claremontus 38 observations
  • Arenophilus iugans 30 observations

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