In recent years, this spectacular centipede (often commonly
referred to as the House Centipede) has always been
regarded as one of those species considered likely to be arrive in
Nottinghamshire soon. There has been an increase in UK records for a few
years and odd specimens being recorded here and there from a number of
sites, but it still remains very rare. Occurring indoors, it could
concievably turn up anywhere, especially houses, but perhaps factories where goods are
imported into, would seem the most likely places for it to occur. It's
definitely on the increase in VC56.
Nottinghamshire's first officially documented record of
Scutigera coleoptrata, turned up in the house of Richard Jones, in
the village of Upton near Southwell in January 2024, but it turns out
that there was an unsubmitted claim of Scutigera coleoptrata
from Gedling back in 2010. Richard posted details of the Upton record
onto iRecord, and both Steve Gregory and staff at the NBGRC quickly
alerted me to the occurrence. Richard also very kindly allowed his photograph to be
used on the website here. Because of the media coverage this record
received, an earlier record (confirmed photographically) from Mansfield
in 2015 (Morgan,
K.) came to light and there have been additional recent
records from a house at Wollaton in August
2024 (Rinaldi-Semione, J. per Steve Gregory)
and Worksop (Chambers, D. per Nottinghamshire
Wildlife Trust) in March 2025. |
