Status:
GB IUCN status: Least Concern
ID Difficulty
Identification
The genus Strigamia are relatively robust darkly pigmented (reddish brown) centipedes. They are readily recognised by the presence of a prominent tooth at the base of the poison claw and the large widely scattered coxal pores of the last legs.
Strigamia maritima is very similar in appearance to the inland S. carniolensis (formerly crassipes), but differs in subtle morphological characters and, characteristically, in it's seashore habitat.
More information to allow accurate identification is given in the published identification keys by Tony Barber (2008 & 2009).
