Talk:Lithobius forficatus

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Does it have a poisonous bite? What is the difference between it and the Japanese Mukade? It looks similar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.223.193.144 (talk) 02:01, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

All lithobiids are poisonus (Lewis 1965; Lewis 1981). I am not familiar with asian arthropods, but the japanese one is looks more like scolopendra family than lithobiidae. They are definately closely related: both are chilopods and myriapoda. The myriapoda group contains liithobidae, geophilomorphae, and scolopendromorphae (spelling..?).

By the way, it is plain ridicoulous to assume that you can determine an lithobius species by the way it runs away. or does not. the article is useless ;) will contribute if I find more time — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.76.63.190 (talk) 09:07, 20 October 2011 (UTC)