These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. The poison is thus injected at the time the claw perforates the skin of the human victim, usually at night. The hardened claws on these legs have each a slit–like opening on the dorsal curvaturfe through which is discharged venom from the poison gland situated in the basal segment of these modified legs. They do not inflict damage with their mouthparts or by stinging but through sharpened claws on their modified first pair of legs with which they grip their prey (for they are predaceous).
They can cause severe injury in some localities, and Pineda (1923) recorded a fatality in a 7–year–old boy in the Philippines. The majority of writers consider that they do not endanger life, although Remington feit that they were potentially dangerous. In some parts of the world they are regarded with fear as dangerous creatures. Centipedes (Chilopoda) are common, the giant species particularly so in the tropics and subtropics (Remington 1950).
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