#4893 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Western Yellow Centipede
🇳🇱 Grote aardkruiper ·Stigmatogaster subterranea
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Shreyas Kuchibhotla · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Nathan Jackson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Shawn Brescia · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Shawn Brescia · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Bennekom, NL :© invasive_nerd · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Wageningen, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Haagse Hout, Den Haag, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 3732 De Bilt, Nederland:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Stigmatogaster subterranea is a species of centipede in the family Himantariidae that can be found in Central Europe, Ireland, Newfoundland, Scandinavia and the United Kingdom. It was recorded from a compost heap of the Botanical Garden at the University of Oslo at Teryen, Oslo in 1992 and 1995.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 21 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #49 most seen of the jellyfish, starfish, worms & co in NL.
- 2,307 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Western Yellow Centipede
- Nederlands
- Grote aardkruiper
- scientific name
- Stigmatogaster subterranea
- class
- Chilopoda
- order
- Geophilomorpha
- family
- Himantariidae
- sightings in NL
- 21
- sightings in Europe
- 1,131
- sightings worldwide
- 2,307
- GBIF records in NL
- 83
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 703702, Wikidata Q4351357, GBIF 2232819, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.