Scutigeridae

Langor, David W. & Langor, Stephen D., 2022, The biota of Canada: checklist of the centipedes of Canada (Myriapoda: Chilopoda), The Canadian Entomologist (e 8) 154 (1), pp. 1-12 : 11

Family Scutigeridae

Scutigera coleoptrata (Linnaeus) . This species, initially thought to be of European origin, now has a cosmopolitan distribution ( Mercurio 2010). It was first reported from Canada (undisclosed localities) as Cermata forceps Rafinesque ( Brodie and White 1883) . Mercurio (2010) reports this species from only British Columbia, Ontario, and Québec in Canada and overlooked the records from Alberta and Saskatchewan reported by Behan-Pelletier (1993). Of the almost 800 observations of this species in Canada included in iNaturalist (www.inaturalist.org), the vast majority are from southern Ontario and Québec. The species is domiciliary and may have a wider jurisdictional distribution in Canada than currently reported.