Scolopendra subspinipes Leach, 1815

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

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30. Scolopendra subspinipes Leach, 1815 View in CoL

Otostigmus politoides Attems, 1953 (for further synonyms see Minelli et al. 2006).

Material examined. Gulf of Guinea: São Tomé Isl., Angola, 17/8/1949, leg. I.L.J. Galbraith, 1 ex., BMNH 1950.3.7.137; Gulf of Guinea: Principe Isl., W. Africa, 8 Dec. 1932, Percy Sladen Memorial and Godman Exploration, leg. W.H. T . Tams, 1 ex., BMNH 1933.8.30.238; Gulf of Guinea: Principe Isl., W. Africa, 15/12/1932, Percy Sladen Memorial and Godman Exploration, leg. W.H. T . Tams, 1 ex., BMNH 1933.12.13.47; Seychelles Isl.: Chilopoda, leg. W.H. T . Tams, 4 exx., BMNH ?. ( Fig. 38 View FIGURE 38 ).

Type locality. Not designated ( Minelli et al. 2006).

General distribution. East Tropical Africa: Zanzibar Isl. ( TZ); West Tropical Africa: Ivory Coast (CI), Liberia (LR); West-Central Tropical Africa: Gulf of Guinea ( São Tomé Isl., Principe Isl.) (ST); Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar ( MG), Mauritius ( MU), Réunion (RE), Rodrigues ( MU), Seychelles (SC); Asia Temperate: China ( CN), including Hong Kong ( HK), Japan ( JP), Korea (KO), Russia (Maritime Province) (RU) (see Zalesskaja and Schileyko 1992: 370); Asia Tropical: Andaman Is. ( IN), Irian Jaya (ID), Laos (LA), peninsular Malaysia (MY), Nicobar Is. ( IN), Philippines ( PH), Sarawak (MY), Singapore (SG), Sri Lanka ( LK), Sulawesi (ID), Sumatra (ID), Taiwan ( TW), Thailand (TH), Vietnam ( VN); Pacific Ocean Islands: Hawaii ( US) (see Shelley 2000); Southern America (presumably introduced): Bermuda ( BM), Brazil ( BR), Caribbean islands (see Shelley 2002: 39), Panama (PA), French Guiana (GF), Guyana ( GY), Surinam (SR), Colombia (CO) ( Shelley 2002; Minelli et al. 2006; Lewis 2010; Kronmüller 2012).

References

Kronmuller, C. (2012) Review of the subspecies of Scolopendra subspinipes Leach, 1815 with the description of the South Chinese member of the genus Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758 named Scolopendra hainanum spec. nov. Spixiana, 35, 19 - 27.

Leach, W. E. (1815) A tabular view of the external characters of four classes of animals, which Linne arranged under Insecta; with the distribution of the genera composing three of these classes into orders, & c. and descriptions of several new genera. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 11, 306 - 400.

Lewis, J. G. E. (2010) A key and annotated list of the Scolopendra species of the Old World with a reappraisal of Arthrorhabus (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae). International Journal of Myriapodology, 3, 83 - 122.

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.

Shelley, R. M. (2000) The centipede order Scolopendromorpha in the Hawaiian islands (Chilopoda). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers, 64, 39 - 48.

Shelley, R. M. (2002) A synopsis of the North American centipedes of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda). Viriginia Museum of Natural History, Memoir 5, 1 - 108.

Figures

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

Abbreviations

T	Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics
MG	Museum of Zoology
MU	Midwestern University
CN	Wellcome Collection of Bacteria, Burroughs Wellcome Research Laboratories
JP	Phyletisches Museum Jena
BM	Bristol Museum
BR	Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collection