Distribution
Scutigera coleoptrata is indigenous to the Mediterranean region, but it has spread through much of Europe, Asia, North America and South America. It is thought to have first been introduced to the Americas in Mexico and Guatemala and now it reaches north into Canada and south to Argentina.
In the United States, it spread north from the southern states, reaching Pennsylvania in 1849, New York in 1885, and Massachusetts and Connecticut in about 1890. In 2009, its distribution extended from Virginia in the east to the coast of California in the west.
In 2011 it was cited from Chile, in the Metropolitan and Los Lagos Regions.
In South Africa, they have been found in the Western Cape, in and around Cape Town (sightings have been reported in Pinelands, Vredehoek, Mowbray, Edgemead, Green Point, Cape Town, Zonnebloem, Cape Town, Woodstock, Cape Town and Gordon's Bay) and also in KwaZulu-Natal, in the city of Pietermaritzburg.
They have been found in eastern and south Australia, from Perth to Sydney, Tasmania, New Zealand, Japan, as well as in South Korea.
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