Chilopoda
Family: Lithobiidae
Genus and species:

Another European species, albeit tentatively identified. One incomplete specimen from Dunedin.

A European species which has been in the country for many years and has in the last thirty years become the dominant centipede of modified habitats. It is especially common in unkempt gardens, compost heaps and similar ...

Another European tramp species established in New Zealand. Although only recently identified, the first vouchered specimens were collected in 1956.

Another European species well-established in New Zealand urban and horticultural areas

Recorded in NZ back in the 1930's as Walesobius sydneyensis from Australia this species is now regarded as coming from Morocco and Spain and is also in South Africa, Bermuda and Argentina. Only a few records from...

Though found in many parts of the World this tramp species originates in the eastern portion of the Mediterranean and the Balkans. It probabably got to England about the same time as here (?1980's). It is now widespread ...