Scolopocryptops ferrugineus ( Linnaeus, 1767 )

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 : 195-196

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32. Scolopocryptops ferrugineus ( Linnaeus, 1767) View in CoL

Material examined. Ghana: Bobiri Forest Reserve, Kumasi, Ashanti, from litter, high forest, Imperial College Expedition , received 8/7/1958, leg. Miss Peterson, 1 ex., BMNH?. ( Fig. 38 View FIGURE 38 ) .

Type locality. West Africa ( Minelli et al. 2006) .

General distribution. West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon ( CM), Gabon (GA), Guinea ( GN) (Chagas- Júnior 2008).

Remarks. Scolopocryptops ferrugineus has been assigned many records in the Neotropics (Pocock 1905; Attems 1930; Kraus 1957; Chagas-Juniór 2003, among others), but these represent a diagnosibly distinct species from the West African types (Chagas-Júnior 2008). Scolopocryptops mexicanus Humbert and Saussure, 1869 , is the oldest available name for Neotropical “ ferrugineus ” (Chagas-Júnior 2008).

References

Attems, C. (1930) Myriapoda 2. Scolopendromorpha. In: Schulze, F. E. & Kukenthal, W. (Eds.), Das Tierreich, 54. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 1 - 308.

Chagas Junior, A. (2008) Revisao sistematica e analise filogenetica dos Scolopocryptopinae (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha). PhD thesis, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 79 pp.

Kraus, O. (1957) Myriapoden aus Peru, VI): Chilopoden. Senckenbergiana biologica, 38, 359 - 404.

Linnaeus, C. (1767) Systema Naturae per regna tria nature, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio duodecima, reformata. Holmiae, 533 - 1327.

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.

Figures

FIGURE 38. Scolopendra oraniensis, S. subspinipes, S. valida and Scolopocryptops ferrugineus, distribution records of specimens from Africa housed in the NHM collection.