The showy statistic is for the house centipede—Scutigera coleoptrata—timed running at 42 centimeters per second.
Slate(Jul 18, 2011)
n long-legged centipede common in damp places as e.g. cellars
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house centipede
centipede
chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors