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George Beccaloni is an entomologist and curator at the Natural History Museum, London, working with the A. R. Wallace insect collection and species in the orders Blattodea, Dermaptera, Mantodea, Orthoptera and Phasmida and Grylloblattodea and Mantophasmatodea in the order Notoptera.[3] In 2000, when on his honeymoon in Thailand, Beccaloni was pleased to find an individual of the species now recognized as S. cataracta near the Khao Sok National Park; his wife, an arachnologist at the Natural History Museum, was equally delighted.[4] Beccaloni described the centipede as "pretty horrific-looking: very big with long legs and a horrible dark, greenish-black color" but what caught his attention was that it scurried into a stream rather than the forest when he turned over the stone it was hiding

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rdfs:label	Scolopendra cataracta
rdfs:comment	George Beccaloni is an entomologist and curator at the Natural History Museum, London, working with the A. R. Wallace insect collection and species in the orders Blattodea, Dermaptera, Mantodea, Orthoptera and Phasmida and Grylloblattodea and Mantophasmatodea in the order Notoptera.[3] In 2000, when on his honeymoon in Thailand, Beccaloni was pleased to find an individual of the species now recognized as S. cataracta near the Khao Sok National Park; his wife, an arachnologist at the Natural History Museum, was equally delighted.[4] Beccaloni described the centipede as "pretty horrific-looking: very big with long legs and a horrible dark, greenish-black color" but what caught his attention was that it scurried into a stream rather than the forest when he turned over the stone it was hiding
dcterms:subject	Chilopoda
abstract	George Beccaloni is an entomologist and curator at the Natural History Museum, London, working with the A. R. Wallace insect collection and species in the orders Blattodea, Dermaptera, Mantodea, Orthoptera and Phasmida and Grylloblattodea and Mantophasmatodea in the order Notoptera.[3] In 2000, when on his honeymoon in Thailand, Beccaloni was pleased to find an individual of the species now recognized as S. cataracta near the Khao Sok National Park; his wife, an arachnologist at the Natural History Museum, was equally delighted.[4] Beccaloni described the centipede as "pretty horrific-looking: very big with long legs and a horrible dark, greenish-black color" but what caught his attention was that it scurried into a stream rather than the forest when he turned over the stone it was hiding under on the stream bank[1] – unusual behavior as centipedes typically avoid water.[2] It then ran along the stream bed and hid under a rock underwater.[1] After capturing the centipede, Beccaloni observed that it swam like an eel below the water's surface;[2] his discovery was greeted with scepticism by an expert on Scolopendra as these centipedes usually occur in dry habitats and no amphibious species of centipede was then known.[1] Gregory Edgecombe, a colleague of Beccaloni's in London, and his Thai student Warut Siriwut collected two specimens near Laotian waterfalls and DNA analysis confirmed they belonged to a new centipede species which they named S. cataracta, from the Latin for waterfall.[1] There are only four known specimens of this species. In addition to Edgecombe and Siriwut's specimens, Edgecombe confirmed that Beccaloni's specimen from 2000 was S. cataracta, and the Natural History Museum turned out to have a Vietnamese specimen from 1928 which had been misidentified.[1] Beccaloni is the only person to have observed the centipede swimming and has hypothesized that its ecological niche is based on "this species [going] into the water at night to hunt aquatic or amphibious invertebrates."[2] The confirmation of the new species was published in the journal ZooKeys in 2016.

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