---
title: "Blue Keeled Centipede"
description: "Otostigmus scaber — Autres animaux. Otostigmus scaber is a species of centipedes in the family Scolopendridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/blue-keeled-centipede
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Blue Keeled Centipede

> Otostigmus scaber — Autres animaux. Otostigmus scaber is a species of centipedes in the family Scolopendridae.

- Scientific name: *Otostigmus scaber*
- Category: `other` (Autres animaux)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 769
- Wikidata: [Q6509642](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6509642)
- iNaturalist taxon: [625776](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/625776)

## Names

- en: Blue Keeled Centipede

## Countries with the most observations

CN (157), US (111), HK (37), TW (36), JP (28), TH (10)

## Summary

Otostigmus scaber is a species of centipedes in the family Scolopendridae. The species is distributed in a broad range from Réunion and Australia's Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean, through South Asian countries to Taiwan, Vietnam and Hawaii.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otostigmus_scaber

## Photo

![Blue Keeled Centipede](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/blue-keeled-centipede/medium.jpg)

Photo: kbkash · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/208627149

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/blue-keeled-centipede?lang=fr` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).