Scolopendra mirabilis ( Porat, 1876 )

Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail & Edgecombe, Gregory D., 2013, Scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) in the Natural History Museum (London): A review of the hitherto unidentified species collected in Africa, with remarks on taxonomy and distribution, and a new species of Otostigmus (Parotostigmus), Zootaxa 3734 (2), pp. 169-198 : 191

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27. Scolopendra mirabilis ( Porat, 1876) View in CoL

Cormocephalus acanthophorus Kohlrausch, 1878 (for further synonyms see Minelli et al. 2006).

Material examined. Kenya: Northern Turkana , Kenya Colony, Feb. – June 1934, Lake Rudolf Rift Valley Expedition 1934, leg. V . E. Fuchs, 2 exx., BMNH 1952.5.3.182-186; Kenya: Lodwar, Northern Turkana , Kenya Colony, 29/4/1934, Lake Rudolf Rift Valley Expedition 1934, leg. V . E. Fuchs, 1 ex., BMNH 1952.5.3.197; Kenya: Lodwar, Northern Turkana , Kenya Colony, 8/5/1934, Lake Rudolf Rift Valley Expedition 1934, leg. V . E. Fuchs, 1 ex., BMNH 1952.5.3.198; Kenya: Naramum, Northern Turkana , Kenya Colony, 20/3/1934, Lake Rudolf Rift Valley Expedition 1934, leg. V . E. Fuchs, 1 ex., BMNH 1952.5.3.187-191; Somalia: British Somaliland, leg. Dr. W.A. Macfadyen, 1 ex., BMNH 1930.12.8.4; Sudan: Erkowit, c. 50 m S.E. of Sinkat, December 1960, leg. J.L. Cloudsley-Thompson, 1 ex., BMNH ?; Sudan: Port Sudan, Feb. 1923, leg. L.Hirsk, 3 exx., BMNH 1928.4.16.66- 69; Tanzania: Moragoro, 1967, received 15/1/1969, leg. T . Wood & W.W. Page, 1 ex., BMNH ?; Uganda: Lake Rudolf, mouth of Kaliokwel river, Cambridge Expedition to East African Lakes 1931, leg. E.B. Worthington, 4 exx., BMNH 1934.2.15.151-154. ( Fig. 37 View FIGURE 37 ).

Type locality. Sudan (White Nile in Kordofan ) ( Minelli et al. 2006) .

General distribution. East Tropical Africa: Kenya (KE) (new region record), Tanzania ( TZ), Uganda ( UG) (new region record); Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea (ER), Ethiopia ( ET), Somalia (SO), Sudan (SD); Northern Africa: Egypt ( EG); Central Asia: Tadzhikistan ( TJ), Turkmenistan ( TM), Uzbekistan ( UZ); Western Asia: Afghanistan ( AF), Iran ( IR); Asia Tropical: Vietnam ( VN) ( Minelli et al. 2006; Simaiakis and Mylonas 2008).

References

Minelli, A., Bonato, L., Dioguardi, R., Chagas, J. A., Edgecombe, G. D., Lewis, J. G. E., Pereira, L. A., Shelley, R. M., Stoev, P., Uliana, M. & Zapparoli, M. (2006 and onwards). CHILOBASE. A web resource for Chilopoda taxonomy.

Porat, C. O. von (1876) Om nagra exotiska myriopoder. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademien Handlingar, 4, 7, 1 - 48.

Simaiakis, S. & Mylonas, M. (2008) The Scolopendra species (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae) of Greece (E- Mediterranean): a theoretical approach on the effect of geography and palaeogeography on their distribution. Zootaxa, 1792, 39 - 53.

Figures

FIGURE 37. Scolopendra mirabilis and S. morsitans, distribution records of specimens from Africa housed in the NHM collection.

Abbreviations

V	Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium
T	Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics
UG	Museo del Departamento de Estratigrafia y Paleontologia
ET	East Texas State University
TM	Teylers Museum, Paleontologische
UZ	Herbario de la Universidad de Zaragoza