Status:
GB IUCN status: Least Concern
ID Difficulty
Identification
Schendyla species are small pallid centipedes typically with conspicuously swollen last legs that lack claws and bear two large coxal pores at the base of each.
Schendyla nemorensis is a small straw coloured centipede (to 20 mm) with a slightly darker head, with just 37-43 leg pairs. It is very similar in appearance to the elusive S. dentata and the coastal S. peyerimhoffi but differs in the shape of the last legs (especially the distal metatarsus - which is elongated in S. nemorensis). It also bears a superficial resemblance to the common Geophilus truncorum (which has claws on the last legs), which can occur in similar habitats.
More information to allow accurate identification is given in the published identification keys by Tony Barber (2008 & 2009).
