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